Quotes About Irony

He was, in fact, dead. It would be hard to be deader without special training.

These days everybody used the clacks, even little old ladies who used it to send him clacks messages complaining about all these newfangled ideas, totally missing the irony.

She managed to come up with the kind of predictions that you can only understand after the thing has happened, said Anathema. Like 'Do Notte Buye Betamacks.' That was a prediction for 1972.

Ez a történet nem érte el célját, ha az olvasó nem vette észre, hogy az Å'rnagy fajankó volt.

Life's little ironies are not always manifest. We hear distant rumbling sounds of its tragedies, but rarely are we permitted to witness the reality. (from W.L.S.)

'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.

If you go back to 'Pretty Fly,' it was a very popish song, but there was a satirical side to it, and I think that's cool. I like the idea that it's making people think just a little bit.

It's fun to just be an awful human being.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist.

I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton - she's always the fool, the joke is always on her.

I was always biting the hand that fed me. It was compulsive. Kennedy was very good to me, and I attacked him as soon as he was elected. I attacked him before he was elected.

It is always a bit hypocritical when a defender who spends the whole game kicking you complains of being kicked.

Meta-comedy is everywhere and always seems so cold and to me is really kinda snarky.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

Kitsch is very important to me.

If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

I left it with a warmer," he said drily. Because war mages ate their fried chicken frozen to the ground and they liked it.

Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.

I mock everything. Don't take it so personally." Adam Black

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.