Quotes About Irony

It's funny, Vasher thought, How many things begin with my getting thrown into prison.

Someone doesn't need to be the least bit funny to be an utter clown.

There always seemed to be a reason Kaladin survived when those he'd tried to help died. Some men might have seen that as a blessing, but he saw it as an ironic kind of torment.

That is sarcasm," Susebron said. "She is quite fond of it.

Y ahí está la ironía! El propio viaje que había emprendido para lograr lo que quería la había transformado en una persona que ya no era capaz de disfrutar de esa victoria

You know, Ham," Breeze noted. "The only funny thing about your jokes is how often they lack any humor whatsoever." "You're only saying that because they usually involve you in the punch line." Breeze rolled his eyes.

believe you stray into sarcasm." "Funny. I thought I'd run straight into it, screaming at the top of my lungs.

Yes, intellectuals and scholars are paid to think deep thoughts—but those thoughts are often owned by others. It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds. As Tress set the final flare in the row, Huck trailed

It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds.

Socrates was a funny little Greek man best known for forgetting to write things down and for screaming, "Look, I'm a philosopher!" in the middle of a No Philosophy zone. (He was later forced to eat his words. Along with some poison.)

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

The irony is that we attempt to disown our difficult stories to appear more whole or more acceptable, but our wholeness—even our wholeheartedness—actually depends on the integration of all of our experiences, including the falls.

I think that's the biggest watch-out with irony and sarcasm: Are you dressing something up in humor that actually requires clarity and honesty?

The irony is that when we're standing across from someone who is hidden or shielded by masks and armor, we feel frustrated and disconnected. That's the paradox here: Vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me, but the first thing I look for in you. If

The irony across all self-protection is that at the same time as we're worrying about machine learning and artificial intelligence taking jobs and dehumanizing work, we're intentionally or unintentionally creating cultures that, instead of leveraging the unique gifts of the human heart like vulnerability, empathy, and emotional literacy, are trying to lock those gifts away.

The irony is that when we're standing across from someone who is hidden or shielded by masks and armor, we feel frustrated and disconnected. That's the paradox here: Vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me, but the first thing I look for in you.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading

A man walks into a library and says, 'I hope you don't have a book on reverse psychology.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

The increasing seriousness of things, then that's the great opportunity of jokes.

She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation.