Quotes About Irony

We are almost in a time beyond jokes, beyond satire. When the Trump era is called the 'post-truth' period, then this is the greatest joke of all, albeit quite depressing.

I was joking the other day that I'm American UKIP.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and aesthete gives us radical realism through the long take, and what he gives us--this is his metaphysical wager--is real outside the film, off the set, beyond the camera and underneath the surface of everyday life.

the greatest humourists are deep down usually angry men, who know that human nature ignores tirades, but is responsive to laughter.

No one does antimaterialism better than multigazillionaire rock stars.

Without the Nazis fewer people would have heard of the Bauhaus today and it would almost certainly seem a little less important. It is a pleasant irony.

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

Now that's true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

On George Eliot's narrative strategy) It also forfeits the great game of the omniscient narrator, which is to know secrets which none of the characters involved will ever learn, ironically taking their unhappy ignorance to the grave.

Verrückt, aber weise.Gefangen, aber frei.Physiker, aber unschuldig!

Planmässig vorgehende Menschen wollen ein bestimmtes Ziel erreichen. Der Zufall trifft sie dann am schlimmsten, wenn sie durch ihn das Gegenteil ihres Ziels erreichen: Das, was sie befürchteten, was sie zu vermeiden suchen (z.B. Ödipus).

To think that one's actions could please the masses is indeed a notion bound in irony; someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything. So do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

Oh, but I'm a scholar. I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the further it flees—and yet the more of it you obtain, the less you understand about it!

It's ironic, in a way. I've spent a lifetime controlling the emotions of others. Now I'm so afraid, I can't even function.

Es una tradición de lo más divertida. -La quema de brujas también lo era -replicó Melody-. A menos que fueras una bruja.

I'm smart enough not to follow my own advice, thank you very much.

And if they could shoot the rusting thing," Wayne added, "the bullet would be small as a flea." Marasi sighed. "Wayne, can't you ever let a joke die?" "Hon, that joke started dead," he said. "I'm just givin' it a proper burial.