Quotes About Irony

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.'

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.

Stuffed animals are sad and scary; they have humorous and tragic qualities.

I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.

Even the most tragic moments can have moments of comedy.

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

Any tragic memory I have I also think is really funny. On any given day, I can think about how horrible something is and also how ridiculous and over-the-top it is.

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

With obvious irony, many of the left-leaning privacy advocates who might cheer Apple's stand against the government's intrusion into its system, are now, as transparency advocates, on the side of the leakers of the Panama Papers.

I drank what?

The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

It's funny that sometimes you can only describe something with perfect accuracy by being wildly inaccurate.

sometimes, the more you want something, the more the opposite tends to happen.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

On his gravestone): "I told you I was ill".

Next its gonna be jump off a cliff day.

I'm pretty sure if Socrates ever met a Kardashian, he'd have gone into the first bar and ordered himself a double hemlock straight up with a twist.