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Quotes About Irony

Don't be alarmed, Mr. Sturges. Some of my closest friends are dead.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
She remembered the lead ammunition in her pocket and offered it to him. "Your balls, Mr. Darcy?" He reached out and closed her hand around them, and offered, "They belong to you, Miss Bennet." Upon
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Someone gave it to me as a gift." Yikes. Getting a book called How to Survive a Horror Movie as a gift? That's like your spouse signing you up for life insurance "which you'll probably never even need.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.
~ Seth Green
L'uomo fa progetti e Dio ride. Che cazzo di stupido aforisma è? Vuol dire che Lui è uno stronzo? Che fine ha fatto L'uomo fa progetti e Dio fa del Suo meglio perché questi progetti si realizzino? In quale religione c'è un'espressione del genere?
~ Shalom Auslander
I kind of like it up here, Kugel said. It's got a certain fatalistic charm, a certain je ne sais fucked.
~ Shalom Auslander
We often miss the irony that the same Paul who writes "submit to the authorities" goes to jail and is condemned for subverting the authorities! He
~ Shane Claiborne
How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.
~ Shane Claiborne
Cannibals love Domino's Pizza. Not for the pizza, but for the delivery guy.
~ Shang
Falling in love and falling to your death feel about the same, I thought. And I almost laughed.
~ Shannon Hale
This just bleeds with irony.
~ Sharon Callen
Every blessing is a curse in disguise.
~ Shashank Khubchandani
It came to him then, permeated his disjointed thoughts. Billie was teaching him—him—how to make love. With a jolt of surprise at the crashing irony, Adrian realized he hadn't known how until now. He, the consummate lover, so renown for his sexual skill, so proficient and controlled and practiced, had only played at making love, where Billie…God. Clearly, it was all she knew. Pretense just wasn't in her spectrum of capabilities.
~ Shelby Reed
Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time." Claire
~ Rachel Caine
I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.
~ Richard Dawkins
Have you seen the deer heads on the walls of bars, the ones wearing party hats, sunglasses and streamers? I feel sorry for them because obviously they were at a party having a good time.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
I had a bumper sticker on my car for a long time that said, "Kill your television." People helpfully pointed out that I was a total fraud because I was a television writer.
~ George Meyer
How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?
~ James Clavell
I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.
~ Jasper Fforde
I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.
~ John Hodgman
Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor. And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time.
~ Judy Woodruff
Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!
~ Adhish Mazumder
Do you get the irony?Who is now talking about, who ain't serious?Oh, we gonna do that and that and that and that?… Yeah, yeah You just wanna trick me one more time….
~ Deyth Banger
What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!
~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal