Quotes About Irony

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want

The thing that I come across is that people think that I might actually be super aggressive, want-to-fight type in real life. The irony is that that's just not true, at all.

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

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.

The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.

And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.

And wasn't that a great moment in baseball history," Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. "Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder catching.

They were simply two human beings caught up in ironic serendipity.

The irony of the Feuersprüche was that they treated books as seriously as Jews did. To feel the need to destroy them acknowledged the potency and value of books, and recognized the steadfast Jewish attachment to them.

You're the very nicest jerk I know.

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...

You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person

Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

How you've both successfully struggled to overcome the barbarism of your district." Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter.