Quotes About Irony

Truly, the world was a comedy of errors, and she was the butt of the joke.

I peeked in the bag. Do you know what was in there? I'll tell you what was in there: a collapsible tray table. Is there any sadder purchase in this fucking world? Maybe a CD of C+C Music Factory's Greatest Hits, but that's about it.

one minute you are the victim of my evildoing (LOL)

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It's better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.

Stop playing the part of the glib martyr. You're just trying to make cyanide out of 7-Up.

When I was initially approached about going to Comic-Con, the giant comic book convention, I said, 'I wouldn't be caught dead at one of those has-been roundups." But, as it turns out, I've been caught alive at those roundups often enough to wish I was dead.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...

I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if you were planning on teaching yourself the lambada on a greased platform over a pit full of knives, I wouldn't." "There goes my Saturday.

Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.

It seems like I'm always an hour late or a dollar short. I'm the kind of guy who will have nothing all my life, and then they'll discover oil while they're digging my grave.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

Mr S. got angry. 'Yes, I do have a son. He's a good-for-nothing. A dead loss.' I couldn't ask which prison he was in, so I put it more tactfully: 'What is he doing?' He sighed deeply: 'He's a professor of mathematics at London University.

A joke worth laughing at always has an idea behind it, and usually a subversive idea.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.