Quotes About Irony

my dogma got run over by my karma'.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things,

Evidence of his mother, out there, elsewhere, so worried about somebody else's children though she'd left her own behind. The irony of it leached into his veins.

And in English class, on a test, she wrote, Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things, and received an A.

I think it would be funny to have one of those family decals showing a really skinny teenage girl barfing into a little chalk-outline bag (the bulimic in the family) or the dad figure dressed in the woman's underwear that he truly enjoys slipping into when no one's looking. Or the wife figure smiling with her exaggerated curly hair and tennis skirt, clutching a racket in one hand and a bottle of Stoli' in the other.

This is the silliest thing I've heard since the cat yoga craze a couple of years ago. I went right out and bought a cat yoga instruction book and tiny terry-cloth headband and renamed my girl cat 'Olive Neutered John,' which she didn't think was funny. Cats have no sense of humor.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

So a sense of humor is not merely a matter of trying to tell jokes or make puns, trying to be funny in a deliberate fashion. It involves seeing the basic irony of the juxtaposition of extremes, so that one is not caught taking them seriously, so that one does not seriously play their game of hope and fear. This is why the experience of the spiritual path is so significant, why the practice of meditation is the most insignificant experience of all.

Ha," I said. "Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, 'cause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?" One," said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell.

May I borrow a cup of cyanide?

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

I am the wound and the knife!I am the blow and the cheek!I am the limbs and the wheel—The victim and the executioner!

I felt as though I were in the presence of one of God's more complicated pranks.

"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble… "the law is a ass, a idiot."

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

I am unfortunate in using a word which may convey a meaning—and evidently does—quite opposite to my intention.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

[T]he satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive. Swift destroyed the human race; Mark Twain and Thurber enabled it to go on. We human beings are all absurd variations of one another in any case, and this is what comedy of all kinds puts down on paper.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Thank you paper clips, for being like staples that can't commit.

I've used up all my sick days so I'm calling in dead.