Quotes About Irony

Orgasm coincides with a general hardening of the arteries.

William Osler's ironical definition of man as 'the medicine-taking animal' is therefore justified inasmuch as it captures something distinctive about humans.

Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you.

Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.

'Camp' sort of means you don't know what you're doing, and we know what we're doing.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.

What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.

In a broader sense, the irony in all of this is the single most necessary element for life to exist, in fact, is killing everything, from our ecosystems to potentially our food supply if we're poisoning fish and the foods that we eat. That is the broader sense.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.

It's surprising how much hate mail I don't get.

What good are insights? They only make things worse.

She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term I'll eat my spare tyre, rim and all.

She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term, I'll eat my spare tire, rim and all.

Diálogo cínico não é humor espirituoso.

It is said by some that the gods show us their bitter humor by molding us into what we hate most in others.

The Appetite Killery" may be the most ironic name, but the most famous inscription read, "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may have to go to Oakland.