Quotes About Irony

Maybe her gravestone could read, "Casualty of cheap laughs.

Ironically, her logical, if demeaning, reply is the only one that comforts me.

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

In a perfect world I would be taller, you would be alive, and chickens could cross the road without being the subject of a joke.

Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

The great irony was that, while I was being portrayed as a monster, I was in Khatmandu with my children, doing soup kitchens for Tibetan refugees, using all the money from my records to feed three hundred people a day, and working with monks connected to the Sammye Ling Buddhist centre in Scotland.

There's always a source for humor.

Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running

It's ironic how those with the most loving arms are the ones who get the most hate.

Ironically, in life, you sacrifice everything you love in the name of love"~ the motto of the romance novel Cupcakes and Cologne.

I am not mean I am just sarcastically humorous

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife.

I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known, told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach.

fracasso é um trapaceiro com um aguçado senso de ironia e astúcia.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning.