Quotes About Irony

Born in a goddam hotel room and dying in a hotel room!

I regard the wheelbarrow full of fresh dirt resting above my unquiet grave. Now I'm in the hole I dug myself, I think with amusement. It feels like an accomplishment

My partner of 45 years is Australian, and a big part of her character is that marvellous quality of irony which Aussies possess. I relish their humour and sense of fairness.

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

I kept telling people, 'I really want to do something like 'Breaking Bad,'' and then people would remind me, 'Krysten, you were on 'Breaking Bad!''

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

I've seen Jordanian television lead its newscast with three identical, consecutive scenes, all on the same royal couch. It's hilarious, and most Western reporters cackle sarcastically when they first see it. I certainly did.

For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It's very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.

Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it.

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.

The medicine increases the disease.

It was, however, a delicate matter for colonists to accuse the British of trying to enslave them, because abject slavery was such a prominent feature of colonial life. This was noted with irony, of course, in England, where Dr. Samuel Johnson, for example, asked, "How is it that the loudest yelps for liberty come from the drivers of slaves?

La prima: mai scegliere l'umorismo se non siamo certi di saperlo maneggiare. L'ironia è la sorella laica della misericordia; il sarcasmo, il fratello antipatico dell'intelligenza.

Had my child been a clergyman's probably he would have been strangled at birth.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

If we could learn to look instead of gawking, We'd see the horror in the heart of farce, If only we could act instead of talking, We wouldn't always end up on our arse. This was the thing that nearly had us mastered; Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men! Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard, The bitch that bore him is in heat again.