Quotes About Irony

It being a certain truth that those who who are born to be hanged will never be drowned.

Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.

Max couldn't believe he'd fallen for her. If he'd just had a thing for flat-chested women none of this would have happened.

Education is the system that's supposed to develop our natural abilities and enable us to make our way in the world. Instead, it is stifling the individual talents and abilities of too many students and killing their motivation to learn. There's a huge irony in the middle of all of this.

Education is being strangled persistently by the culture of standardized testing. The irony is that these tests are not raising standards except in some very particular areas, and at the expense of most of what really matters in education.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.

The most perfect humour and irony is generally quite unconscious.

No one, of course, signed up for this loss of control. They downloaded the apps and set up accounts for good reasons, only to discover, with grim irony, that these services were beginning to undermine the very values that made them appealing in the first place: they joined Facebook to stay in touch with friends across the country, and then ended up unable to maintain an uninterrupted conversation with the friend sitting across the table.

Yet the profound irony was that our killer believed he was providing himself with just those things: vengeance for the child he had been, protection for the tortured soul he had become.

There's always a source for humor.

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

My problem with math was that I was never able to convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

How Not to Spend Your Senior Year, Rule #3: No matter how dire things get, do not panic. It will only make a bad situation even worse. Besides, by the time you've reached the hit-the-panic-button stage, it's way too late. Nothing you do will make a difference anyhow. This is a phenomenon known to the ancients as irony. You may be more familiar with the contemporary expression of this concept: Life sucks. Particularly weekends.

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

I stubbed my toe going to the gallows

Actually saying OMG out loud should only happen if you're being ironic or asking your phone for directions to the Oklahoma Meerkat Gardens.

Where he makes a jest, a problem lies concealed.

Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle.

I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter

To say I didn't have great luck in the guy department was like saying Ryan Seacrest didn't have great luck in the height department: total understatement.

Great. Some women cruise Beverly and go home with a pair of Jimmy Choos. I go home with a broken leg.