Quotes About Irony

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studdedwheelchair.

That's the funny thing about stealing money---it always seems to be the rich people who have the most of it.

If money is a curse, may God smite me with it, and may I never recover!

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

How can I have morning sickness when I don't get up till noon?

Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

Nothing fails like success.

Tragedy is actually untimely comedy

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.