Quotes About Irony

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

I worked in the Bush campaign, and some of us would darkly joke, "Anybody can become president when you get more votes. To lose by half a million and become president takes professionals." It seemed funny at the time. Less so now.

These days the branding of Fox News as "Fair and Balanced" often seems primarily to serve the purpose of proving that irony is not dead.

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

Another one of life's little jokes. I thought it was a tumor 'til it started to kick.

should be relieved, but I'm pissed. The irony is that he's probably still going to dominate my life.

Solving large, difficult problems may earn you a reputation for skillful negotiation, but Sun Tzu asserts that this supposed achievement is actually a form of failure, and having true wisdom means preventing difficult problems from arising in the first place. Ironically

Don't be careless," Mr. Dawkes said, which was what he always said when he'd hand back a test and I'd made a lot of careless mistakes. Which was really pretty funny, since he died when he ran through a red light on Washington Avenue. I

Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.

Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'.

Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a lamp; not a woman, but a woman. To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role. It is the farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater.

Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying.

One must distinguish between naïve and deliberate Camp. Pure Camp is always naive. Camp which knows itself to be Camp (camping) is usually less satisfying.

The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful

To talk about camp is therefore to betray it. If the betrayal can be defended, it will be for the edification it provides, or the dignity of the conflict it resolves.

Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is too much.

The Camp insistence on not being "serious," on playing, also connects with the homosexual's desire to remain youthful.)

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

bathetic, grotesque. At the moment of his

Here is how the harmful becomes profitable: That which yesterday was reviled today ends up in Urban Outfitters. The critic Rebecca Solnit has summarized it this way: 'Eat your heart out on a plastic tray,' say the Sex Pistols. Now, we know where to buy the tray and what the heart tastes like.

The irony of their impatience is that only by learning to wait, and by a willingness to accept the bad with the good, do we usually attain those things that are truly worthwhile.

The irony of all this is that God of perfect justice is both the one for whom we long and the one whom we dread. We long for someone to set things right, to punish those who terrorize, molest, kills and enslave the innocent... we want a judge with total power and piercing commitment to righteousness. But when his eyes turn on us, we realize that we too, are guilty. We, too, deserve his judgement.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.