Quotes About Irony

If my Rolls-Royce splashes you with mud as you're waiting for a bus, you'll know that I've taken to crime.

Because of his face." "His face? But—" "Yes, I know what you're going to say. It's a sinister face. That's just it. No man with a face like that could be really sinister. It must be a colossal joke on the part of Nature.

I do not complain," said Poirot, and proceeded to do so.

Not at all," said Mrs. Oliver. "Least likely person. It seems to work out in real life just the same as in books.

Come out with all the old inane cliches and curl a sardonic lip at them.

It seems so awful somehow that it should be such a lovely day.

El destino parece a veces burlarse de los serers humanos complaciéndose en descubrir lo que éstos quisieran conservar secreto.

What beats me—it always does—is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Nature's perfectly cruel in the most just ways

The irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive

Unfortunately, ..., all too often a joke tells the truth.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

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The Channel is a slipper-bath of irony through which we pass these serious Continentals in order not to be infected by their gloom.

She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or a cruel joke.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

You can only get so many belly laughs out of nihilism and the price of black eyeliner.

Mark Twain's words: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

I've got a wife, two kids, a dog and a mini-van. Isn't that disgusting? We're talking Americana, man. Apple pie on the table and everything.