Quotes About Irony

Only a mind steeped in true love can write irony. The others write satire.

if you can't find the humor in everything around you, then eventually you find out too late that the joke is on you.

he had received the blow from which he never would recover and this no one wanted to believe. Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me? The men on the stand stayed with him, cool and at a little distance, adding and questioning and corroborating, holding it down as well as they could with an ironical self-mockery; but each man knew that the boy was blowing for every one of them.

Giovanni," I said, helplessly, "be careful. Please be careful." He gave me an ironical smile. "Thank you," he said. "You should have given me that advice the night we met.

Giovanni', I said, helplessly, 'be careful. Please be careful'. He gave me an ironical smile. 'Thank you', he said, 'You should have given me that advice the night we met

The lesson here for me was that one sure way to be numbered among the dead would be to set out on a ruthless campaign never to make anything out of anything. The tragic irony of such an endeavor is that, should one succeed, one becomes someone who makes something out of the fact that he never makes anything out of anything! This maze suspiciously resembles the dilemma of the humble person who becomes proud about being humble.

A "file" was originally—in sixteenth-century England—a wire on which slips and bills and notes and letters could be strung for preservation and reference. Then came file folders, file drawers, and file cabinets; then the electronic namesakes of all these; and the inevitable irony. Once a piece of information is filed, it is statistically unlikely ever to be seen again by human eyes.

Gucci is a rapper that doesn't try and be anything he's not - he's straight up. Yeah, maybe it's ironic and all, but I'm just a fan and have been one since day one. Gucci Mane is the cool uncle I never had, even though I'm sure I'm probably older than him.

My casting in 'Uncle On The Rocks' is like Rajpal Yadav being cast as Shahenshah or Akbar.

As a comedian, I am attracted to truths that are uncomfortable. I like funny bummers.

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

Every man imagines that he will turn his suit like a double agent, that it can be twisted to his will with irony or comedy, that the man can undermine its origins.

'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

If your believed in book-told god is a silly sod, you too are.

When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise.

A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.

You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you

Why do I always meet women as I'm leaving the dog park with a big bag of poop? And it's always on the day I forgot my dog.