Quotes About Irony

Don't you see? The enemy represents Death to 'em. The government propaganda mills paint the enemy as an unfeelin', devourin' monster. So, when we go to war we go on a noble mission, a life-affirming mission, whose object is the destruction o' death. And 'tis precisely because we hate death so much that we're too crazed and irrational to see the irony in it. We hate death so bloody much that we will kill — and die — in order to try to halt its march.

There have been cans of dog food more splendiferous than South Richmond. Land mines more tender.

If it weren't for Phoenician blinds, it'd be curtains for all of us.

human reality is often simultaneously somber and funny.

The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!

with all the sweetness of a chocolate-coated razor-blade.

But he's happy to draw the distinctions between us. Within minutes of learning about our common conflict zones he tells me, without a whiff of irony, "I hate journalists." "Get in line," I tell him. It's not like I haven't heard the sentiment before.

what you must understand is that the herald & the horror are the same.

It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Fate was indeed a cruel bitch, and she was laughing mightily at him this day.

Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.

Let's put the fun back in funeral!

At her funeral, Diana's brother observed, 'Of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this--- a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of our modern age.

Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.

Seria uma trágica ironia se a rejeição de credos e confissões — por tantas pessoas que com sinceridade desejam ser fiéis em sentido bíblico — se revelasse não um ato de fidelidade, mas uma capitulação involuntária ao espírito da época.

Why is there always a secret singingWhen a lawyer cashes in?Why does a hearse horse snickerHauling a lawyer away?

There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

L'umorismo va distinto dall'ironia. ?ando si fa dell'ironia si ride degli altri. ?ando si fa dell'umorismo si ride con gli altri. L'ironia ingenera tensioni e confli?i. L'umorismo quando usato nella misura giusta e nel momento giusto (e se non è usato nella misura giusta e nel momento giusto non è umorismo) è il solvente per eccellenza per sgonfiare tensioni, risolvere situazioni altrimenti penose, facilitare rapporti e relazioni umane.

Day dawns, a fine autumn morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man would have been happier to be alive. He is in fact dead.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit,' sir.