Quotes About Irony

Tengo que irme, me dije, ya he perdido demasiado tiempo entre los muertos, fingiéndome muerto, olvidándome de la ironía.

Thanks to God, I'm an atheist.

comedy was about what was wrong with the world—people laughed because something was too big, or too small, or too much, or not enough. Quirks and exaggerations were the essence of parody. Irony and discomfort the grist for humor.

If you laugh at it, you're stepping over the corpses. And if you work with him, well, it's worse.

It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

If loving something means giving it our attention (and it does), then most of us are in love with our thoughts. The irony is that this lover doesn't love us back but, instead, gives us a lot of negative messages and poor advice. In short, this lover makes us unhappy. What can explain our devotion to such a poor lover?

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

Ironies were like secrets: unshared they died.

The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next.

God being dead, irony still rollickingly alive...

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

Most young people have rebellious, anti-authoritarian impulses. They don't like being told what, when, or how to do something. It's ironic, then, that many of these same people embrace a system in which there would be far more regulations, many more bureaucrats micromanaging their lives, and far more rules and restrictions on how things can be done.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

The irony here is that thanks to molecular archaeology—which includes the study of ancient DNA to trace human movement over time—we now know that men have been the stay-at-homes, and women have been the travelers. The rate of intercontinental migration for women is about eight times that for men.

The ridiculous arises out of a moral contrast, in which two things are brought together before the mind in an innocent way.

First you say I am a murderer - an agent in league against you - and now I am a deluded heartsick girl! Pray make up your mind so I can scoff at you with precision!

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?

I thought "clean eating" was devouring cupcakes while mopping the floor.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

God is bad, truth is a cheat, and life is a joke.

The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth—unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen.