Quotes About Irony

Poverty was nature surviving in society; that the limitedness of food and the unlimitedness of men had come to an issue just when the promise of boundless increase of wealth burst in upon us made the irony only the more bitter.

Life is funny; it really is.

Even the English, who understand it, are not exactly riotously amused by the understatement. At best, a well-timed, well-turned understatement only raises a slight smirk.

Manche von seinen Witzen sind schon ein bißchen heftig, aber schließlich ist er tot.Da würde wohl jeder einen schwarzen Humor entwickeln.

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.

Oh God," I groaned, with mock distress. "Now I guess I'll have to get a boyfriend.

If con is the opposite of pro, and progress is good, what is Congress?

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

More than anything, he wanted them to know that even though they would grow up never knowing their father, it was not for the lack of his love for them. No, it was because he loved them so, because he was determined they have the life they deserved, that he had given everything to help secure it for them. That was the most bitter irony of war: The greatest acts of love for your family were the ones that kept you apart from them.

That was the most bitter irony of war: The greatest acts of love for your family were the ones that kept you apart from them.

I was named for flying—after those great birds we see over Sumer. Instead here we are, buried. I'd brought celebratory drinks, but come, let's toast irony instead.' 'I'm not going to celebrate this.' Mithila's voice shook. 'We can celebrate trying.

Tommy Cooper finds a painting and a violin in the attic; takes them to an expert who says, 'You've got a Stradivarius and a Rembrandt. Unfortunately Stradivarius was a terrible painter and Rembrandt made awful violins.

But that is only 'natural evil,'" he waxed eloquently. "What of personal evil?" Now his words took on the calculated righteous indignation of a politician. "What kind of god would allow the heinous evils of rape, murder, genocide, and war?" Uriel snorted at the irony. At this very moment, the Accuser's ally Inanna was leading a horde of thirty thousand unholy demigods on Eden. They were planning massive rape, murder, genocide, and war.

Their creation story bothered Uriel the most. In their narrative, the Anunnaki created mankind to be slaves of the gods, and bear the yoke of their labors, to mine their precious elements and build their holy kingdoms. Clay was mixed with the flesh of a god and then spat upon and mankind was birthed. So Elohim's purpose of male and female created in his image to rule over creation was displaced with an opposite narrative, one that carried an irony not lost on Uriel:

How deliciously ironic that something so apparently beneficial to the mind as education could be twisted into a tool of power to lull young minds into thoughtless adherence.

enter." "This is a joke, right?

The greatest irony about what drove me from the Order of St. Francis is that it was nothing that hadn't been experienced by the very founder himself, nearly 800 years before.

When done right, it's possible to be silly and subversive at the same time.

HUMOR, LIKE METAPHOR, is simply two things placed side by side that don't belong together.