Quotes About Irony

It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights.

There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

I guess God has a sense of humor, when he had a man that wanted to start his life as a priest, end up marrying a preacher.

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

A man came round in hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I had to amputate your arms"

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

I've always said, I like my coffee like I like my men... I don't drink coffee.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.