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Quotes About Irony

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.
~ Robert Mankoff
The trouble with any salvation usually is that it's not at all funny.
~ Eve Babitz
Laughter is the deadliest weapon of all: with laughter you can murder anything, even murder.
~ Evgeny Zamjatin
Artichoke is a real dish for the poor..; it's the only one that, when you have finished eating, you have more in your plate than when you started. (Michel Colucci known as Coluche)
~ Fabrice
My wife and I have been happy for twenty years....Then we met!
~ Fabrice
To be thought to be a moron to the eyes of an idiot is a gourmet's sensual delight!
~ Fabrice
According to Francis, Narkis and Zoltar have been plotting against their dad." "He did name his boys Narkis and Zoltar." "Good point. I'd have shot him too.
~ Faith Hunter
taking the piss?
~ Faith Martin
Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!
~ Fannie Flagg
It was cruelly ironic that his brilliant brain cells eventually led to his demise.
~ Faye Kellerman
The long feud between them has a certain piquant irony, because their affinity of temperament is as striking as their antipathy. In both of them the ideas of the Enlightenment were uneasily at war with the emotions of the Romantic Movement. Both had genius, and both were supreme egoists who thought that genius and the pursuit of glory put them above the ordinary rules.
~ Felix Markham
I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold-hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes.
~ Ferdinand de Saussure
En un país donde puede pasar TODO, no pasa NADA.
~ Fernando Del Paso
I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Les evitaría el final de los de la moto por evidente, pero no, que sufran: se chocaron contra un carro que venía a toda "in the right direction", y acabaron en el tejado del susodicho. De ahí, del techo, de la capota, los tuvo que bajar el agente de la fiscalía que vino a realizar el levantamiento de los cadáveres. ¿Se imaginan un "levantamiento" bajando? Así andamos de mal.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Ferris I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign
~ Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
It makes me feel tired about how guarded we are the whole time. Without even trying we're ready to make a joke of everything, serving up the day with big dollops of irony and derision and cynicism. As if. Sucked in. Kidding.
~ Fiona Wood
it is ironic enough to see sentiments of the most sublime self-denial invoked in support of spoliation itself. See to what this boasted disinterestedness tends! These men who are so fantastically delicate as not to desire peace itself, if it is founded on the vile interest of mankind, put their hand into the pockets of others, and especially of the poor.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Marc Marronnier is twenty-seven years old, he has a beautiful apartment, a cool job and still he doesn't kill himself. Go figure.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Îmi place ironia f?r? cinism, luciditatea f?r? nihilism, via?a dulce f?r? culpabilitate, polite?ea f?r? ipocrizie, timiditatea f?r? afectare, generozitatea f?r? poman?, fericirea f?r? plictis, lacrimile f?r? motiv.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Favorite animal: steak.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I love Germany so much that I am glad there are two of them.
~ Francois Mauriac
Even though everybody knows that when you light up a cigarette God takes an hour off your life and gives it to Keith Richards.
~ Billy Connolly