Quotes About Irony

I'm not the heroic type, really. I was beaten up by Quakers.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Said the pot to die kettle, "Get away, blackface."

A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.

The nearer the church, the further from God.

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.

Lord, if you can't make me thin - can you make all my friends fat?

The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

I never give anyone advice: it can backfire horribly. In the 1950s, Eric Morecambe told Ken Dodd to get his teeth fixed. But those teeth turned out to be one of Dodd's big selling points.

Nobody really turns out too happy in any of my stuff. It's really strange, because I'm actually a pretty happy person. I'm not walking around giggling or anything like that, but I've got this feeling that everything is okay with my life.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."