Quotes About Irony

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

She should send him a little note, something fun, not too didactic: A HEART ATTACK IS GOD'S REVENGE FOR EATING HIS LITTLE FRIENDS.

In few places is there such a high concentration of hypocrisy as at a writer's funeral.

Aprendí, gracias a esos envoltorios vacíos que pretendían llamarse hombres, la risa amarga y un poco superior de quien posee, en relación con los manipuladores de generalidades, la ventaja de la experiencia.

No pudo dejar de sonreír. Hasta el cinismo podía llegar a ser simpático en ciertas circunstancias.

Etchenike hizo un gesto de desaliento. —¿Qué pasa, hice mal? —No, Sofía, la próxima vez traiga nafta y un fósforo. Pero la próxima, Etchenike no lo sabía, esa ironía iba a resultar ridícula.

What irony. This great ship that carried all their fates upon her steel and rivets sailed like a compeer under him, half-blind with a limp.

Today is Casanova's seventy-third birthday, and he is already suffering from the debilitating painful bladder disorder which will claim his life in two months' time. Considering how many deceived husbands and women must have wanted to kill him during the course of his long life it is ironic that he is destined to die of a urinary infection in the safety of his own bed.

Have you ever dated someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide?

Satire doesn't stand a chance against reality anymore.

I am not sincere even when I am saying that I am not sincere.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

Die Tatsache, dass wahre Schönheit mit Selbstvergessenheit zu tun hatte, passte zum seltsamen Humor des Schöpfers: Jene, die sie besaßen, wussten nichts damit anzufangen, während alle, die etwas davon verstanden, niemals in ihren Besitz gelangten.

James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she'd smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she'd stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he'd swum through a rosebush, which wasn't as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh.

Am I not allowed to speak in hyperbole?" "Only," he said, a bit too smoothly, "if you are talking about me." Ellie's face slid into a smirk. "Oh, Charles," she exclaimed, "I feel as if we have known each other for a million years." Her tone grew more ironic. "I am that weary of your company.

All I meant to say is that a rake's humor has its basis in cruelty. He needs a victim, for he cannot imagine ever laughing at himself. You, your grace, are rather clever with the self-deprecating remark.

We've been through nothing, you ridiculous man, but I suppose you may call me Daphne nonetheless." "Excellent." He nodded in a condescending manner. "You may call me 'your grace.

She looked delighted by the prospect. Delighted that he might find the perfect woman. And there it was. His faith in a higher power reaffirmed. Truly, moments of this ironic perfection could not come about by accident.

It was ironic, Amelia had thought more than once during the journey to Cloverhill that she had recently become so enamored of cartography. Because she was only just now coming to realize how thoroughly her own life had been mapped out by others. Even with all her plans torn asunder, her new map, with whatever routes her life was meant to take, was being drawn by others.

He rolled his eyes. Women. And yet, this was Billie. The least womanly woman of

My sisters call him Slinky Simon.' Alec chuckled. 'It's only funny if he's not your cousin.' 'It's funny because it's true.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

I try to be smart with my comedy. Generally, it devolves into bathroom humour. I describe my comedy as, 'I have the best intentions, but usually it fails.'