Quotes About Irony

The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.

Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.

Always...no wait...never.....

Jesus Christ is Creator, Integrator, and Reconciler; yet many who call on his name abuse, neglect, and do not give a care about creation. That irony is there for all to see. Honoring the Creator in word, they destroy God's works in deed. Praising God from whom all blessings now, they diminish and destroy God's creatures here below. The pieces of this puzzle do not fit! One piece says, We honor the Great Master! The other piece says, We despise his great masterpieces!N5

It is an irony still to be appreciated by many scholars that by so maximizing sinfulness (before God every man is guilty of every conceivable sin) Protestants tried to minimize its psychological burden (no man is required to ponder and recite his every actual sin)

There is a joke about a little girl who is filling in a hole in her garden when a neighbor looks over the fence. He politely asks, Hi! What are you up to? My goldfish died, replies the girl tearfully, and I've just buried him. The neighbor asks, Isn't that an awfully big hole for a goldfish? The little girl tamps down the soil and replies, That's because he's inside your stupid cat.

Though these developments were sometimes linked to the word progress, the usage was ironic: "progress" unguided by humanism is not progress.

Voltaire's Candide who asserts that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

A good rule of thumb is that any country that has the word "democratic" in its official name, like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (a.k.a. North Korea) or the German Democratic Republic (a.k.a. East Germany), isn't one.

And according to a joke that was told many times in 1993, Bill and Hillary Clinton were being driven through her hometown when Hillary spotted an old boyfriend pumping gas. If you hadn' married me, said Bill, you'd be the wife of a gas station attendant. If I hadn't married you, replied Hillary, he would be president.

Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.

Love is a jeering mime.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind

I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.

Laugh at love and love will make you cry.

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

It's so ironic that life is all about love, yet we live most of it either searching, never finding, or messing it up.

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

Well, you are dying—on purpose." "And you're pregnant—by accident." "A fine pair we make," she says.