Quotes About Irony

Here is the irony: Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars, and as a result there was never a European empire—there was instead a British empire, a Spanish empire, a French empire, a Portuguese empire, and so on.

I finally got my knight in shining armor. Too bad he was a teenage werewolf

You destroyed five million dollars' worth of luxury cars. Yes, but none of them are wearing human heads as hood ornaments.

It just goes to show that no matter how great a nail you give humanity, we'll manage to hammer it into the ground crooked. We suck. It's the nature of our species.

Are you playing a tiny violin?" he asked. "Yep. The name of the song is 'My Heart Bleeds for You.'" He grimaced. "You're an annoying little fly, aren't you?

The moment you looked into his gray irises, you knew he would tolerate no challenge to his authority, and if his eyes turned gold, you knew you were going to die. In a fit of cosmic irony, he had fallen in love with me. I challenged his authority on a weekly basis.

They call the undead inhuman, not realizing the irony: only humans are capable of inhumanity.

But he's joking, he doesn't mean it. When Lucas makes a joke he means it.

The book is quite serious and quite funny. (Most novels are.)

This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have.

You never know if he's being ironic or dyslexic.

Cleon II was Lord of the Universe. Cleon II also suffered from a painful and undiagnosed ailment. By the queer twists of human affairs, the two statements are not mutually exclusive, nor even particularly incongruous.

The worst dog gets the best bone. Why is it?

The only good thing about marriage is becoming a widow

He tenido un día muy desgraciado! -me confesó, sollozando. – ¿No hubo un solo momento bueno en el día, Andrea? – Sí. Una niña se cayó y se partió los dientes. – ¡Pero qué tiene eso de bueno, Andrea, por Dios! – Que no fui yo.

La vida está llena de ironías, mejor gozar lo que se tiene ahora, sin pensar en un mañana hipotético

When I met Groucho Marx, I had butterflies in my stomach. And I met him at a Led Zeppelin party, which is ironic.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

I was going to take you out to lunch for your birthday . . . but you already are.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

I am a deeply superficial person.

They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.

My specialty is detached malevolence.