Quotes About Irony

Irony, when delivered cold and shaved very, very fine, could sound like amusement.

My daughter, I said blankly. I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well as a woman, to make a child. Is this infant's father to be a crab, or a seagull maybe? Or were you planning to shipwreck some likely sailor on my doorstep, so I can make convenient use of him?

If sarcasm were gold, she would have just made her fortune.

Covering his tracks by randomizing his route back to the apartment had become routine for Skirata now, which was a bizarre irony in itself.

Lydia supposed his headstone had been ordered. Something large and garish made of the finest marble and phallic shaped because being dead didn't stop you from being a dick.

Evil people can do good. Good people can do evil. Why does this happen sometimes? Because it's Tuesday.

Hegel dice en alguna parte que todos los grandes hechos y personajes de la historia universal aparecen, como si dijéramos, dos veces. Pero se olvidó de agregar: una vez como tragedia y la otra como farsa.

Honestly, all the trouble Noah went to saving the animals two by two and now we're making handbags out of them. I

I stopped listening to Justin. I don't think he likes to leave anything as nature intended. He'd iron out the lump on a camel's back and get a pelican to have its throat lifted.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was soanti-Semitic.

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is melting, we're at war, and Two and a Half Men is a huge hit.

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

Man's inhumanity toward man is astounding, and I'm just talking about the lineup at certain comedy clubs.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.