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Quotes About Irony

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
~ Keith Richards
Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.
~ Mason Cooley
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.
~ Oscar Wilde
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
~ Bette Midler
Love is blind," Harriet quipped. "But not illiterate," Elizabeth retorted.
~ Julia Quinn
The maimings of love are endlessly funny.
~ Gilbert Sorrentino
I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.
~ Jane Wilson-Howarth
I love hipsters! Yes, I think they're hilarious. The really cute ones try to look ugly just to prove "I can't be ugly." Normcore was kind of funny too.
~ John Waters
Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.
~ Kevin Kline
What a snarky jerk. (Obviously, I later slept with him.)
~ Lena Dunham
I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.
~ Lucia Perillo
I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.
~ Michael Showalter
Future hipsters will love me ironically.
~ Mindy Kaling
Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?
~ Bill Bryson
I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.
~ Bill Bryson
If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it.
~ Bill Bryson
The greatest possible irony would be if in our endless quest to fill our lives with comfort and happiness we created a world that had neither.
~ Bill Bryson
Isn't it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?
~ Bill Bryson
And yet in Britain, despite the constant buffetings of history, English survived. It is a cherishable irony that a language that succeeded almost by stealth, treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants, should one day become the most important and successful language in the world.
~ Bill Bryson
It is a cherishable irony that a language that succeeded almost by stealth, treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants, should one day become the most important and successful language in the world.
~ Bill Bryson
The greatest possible irony would be if in our endless quest to fill our lives with comfort and happiness we created a world that had neither. But that of course would be another book.
~ Bill Bryson
Goossens, the man who started it all, likewise failed to see his dream realized. In 1956, while passing through customs at Sydney Airport, he was found to be carrying a large and diversified collection of pornographic material, and he was invited to take his sordid continental habits elsewhere. Thus, by one of life's small ironies, he was unable to enjoy, as it were, his own finest erection.
~ Bill Bryson
In 1956, while passing through customs at Sydney Airport, he was found to be carrying a large and diversified collection of pornographic material, and he was invited to take his sordid continental habits elsewhere. Thus, by one of life's small ironies, he was unable to enjoy, as it were, his own finest erection.
~ Bill Bryson