Quotes About Irony

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

I find it funny that I'm a pin-up.

The most ironic thing is that The Pirate Bay's enemies include not just the U.S. government but also many European and the Russian one.

Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties' greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital).

You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.

My father was Donald Trump, and my mother was Hillary Clinton, and my grandmother was Nancy Pelosi. And I was - I wanna say, Mike Pence, 'cause he's the gayest one.

You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the audience to invest in the fun and the warmth and generally care about the characters.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

I was just chased through St. Willibald's, and you know why? Because I was kind to a quig. I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and then it turns out they don't need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

How did you merit so much devotion so quickly?' I asked, making no attempt to keep the sarcasm from my voice. 'I show them Heaven', said she, without a trace of irony. 'People are so desperate for light'.

Please don't joke and bleed at the same time.

Y'know, I cut my finger on a mandoline once. I stole it, so I guess the universe said, 'Bitch, please.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.

A man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Call it Irony or destiny of life, but the fact is I failed to make a living from what 'I loved doing the most' nor did I justify for what I was paid for!

The irony of life is we always compare our fantasies with reality, rather than accepting the reality as is and transforming it into a paradise...."

The only good thing about people not taking me seriously is that I'm not serious myself!

The German psychologist Jutta Heckhausen, now in California, studied a group of childless middle-aged women who were still hoping to have a baby. As they approached menopause, their emotional distress became more and more intense. But after menopause those who gave up their hope for pregnancy lost their depression symptoms.81 The irony is deep: hope is often at the root of depression.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

You'd think God invented stupidity the same day he came up with the penis.

My strength is my weakness and weakness is my strength

The intrusions upon the civil liberties of religious pacifists in the American Revolution revealed an ironic twist: the rebels who professed to carry the torch of freedom did their best to extinguish it, while those they accused of demonstrating a "destructive tendency" to subvert "freedom and independence" were the ones who kept that torch ablaze.