Quotes About Irony

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

If no meant no then every man would die a virgin.

All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

Noses run. Feet smell.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

I had mixed feelings, like watching your Mother in Law drive over a cliff in your car.

Sur son trône d'airain le Destin qui s'en raille Imbibe leur éponge avec du fiel amer, Et la Nécessité les tord dans sa tenaille.

I'm famous. Ain't that a bitch?

There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

It is not surprising that emotion untutored by thought results in nearly contentless blather, in which--ironically enough--genuine emotion cannot be adequately expressed.

As the Habsburg military used to say, the situation is catastrophic, but not serious.

as they say, a Cretan is attacking a Cretan" (quod dici solet, Cretensis incidit in Cretensem); that is, "it takes a thief to catch a thief," or "it takes one to know one

It's ironic that some plants thrive in soil that has been displaced. Due to the devastation around us, these flowers bloom profusely, yet I find their tenacity and beauty uplifting.

Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too'

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I remembered who was telling me this. — Emo Philips

Ausgerechnet der Mensch ist unmenschlich.

The deeper irony is that the evidence of sin that are always found in and around the body of Christ may become indirect intimations of its holiness. It could not be a holy church if it had clean hands, as if severed from its task of saving sinners and healing human hurt.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.