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Quotes About Irony

An art thief is a man who takes pictures.
~ George Carlin
Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Is not parody the eternal lot of man?
~ Milan Kundera
The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?
~ Nora Roberts
Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.
~ Norman Mailer
You are a sick, sick man," I told him. "Thank you," Ben replied, looking modest.
~ Patricia Briggs
A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.
~ Patricia McCormick
...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.
~ Patrick deWitt
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
~ Raymond Chandler
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.
~ Richard Perle
I know a guy who had his doctor say, "Take some weight off, go to a health club." The man lost 20 pounds in one week! The machine tore his leg off!
~ Henny Youngman
I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I was always, 'An athlete? Heck no.'
~ Jessica Simpson
Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.
~ Daniel Tosh
What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.
~ Mike Birbiglia
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
~ Ted Allen
As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money.
~ George Carlin
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
~ Mark Twain
People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.
~ George Burns
Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
And it's very, very funny When you've lots and lots of money To be horrible to those with none! Be horrible to those with none!
~ Anna Russell
Wouldn't it be great if all of Osama bin Laden's money was tied up in Enron stock?
~ Dennis Miller