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Quotes About Irony

I'll tickle his catastrophe.
~ James Joyce
As true as I'm drinking this porter if he was at his last gasp he'd try to downface you that dying was living.
~ James Joyce
Funny how ye tell people a story to make a point and ye fail, ye fail, a total disaster. Not only do ye no make yer point it winds up the exact fucking opposite man, the exact fucking opposite. That isnay a misunderstanding it's a total whatever.
~ James Kelman
You put me in mind of a man who spent his last cent on Ex-Lax and forgot the pay toilet cost a dime.
~ James Lee Burke
I still couldn't imagine that she was really, truly pregnant; maybe this was an hysterical pregnancy. But Sarah was never hysterical. Enthusiastic, yes, ironic on occasion. I couldn't imagine a doctor saying, No, it's just an ironic pregnancy.
~ James Lileks
Cynicism is simply realism with a veneer of irony.
~ James Lovegrove
We had all that love, and we just cracked up under it. It's a big airplane engine, that takes you through the sky, right up to the top of the mountain. But when you put it in a Ford, it just shakes it to pieces. That's what we are, Frank, a couple of Fords. God is up there laughing at us.
~ James M. Cain
Ain't that funny? You fall for a guy because he's smart and then you find out he's smart.
~ James M. Cain
all issues but one, antebellum southerners stood for state's rights and a weak federal government. The exception was the fugitive slave law of 1850, which gave the national government more power than any other law yet passed by Congress. This irony resulted from the Supreme Court's decision in Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842). In the typical oblique
~ James M. McPherson
The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him.
~ James McBride
Sleep well, gentlemen, for tomorrow we become connoisseurs of shite.
~ James Morrow
Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. Does anysing on you vork properly? Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony. Ter Borcht tsked. You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold onto someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely? Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert, Iggy said truthfully.
~ James Patterson
A vet! I started laughing weakly and had to sit on the edge of the tub. A vet. Wait till they found out how appropriate that was.
~ James Patterson
Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.
~ James Patterson
guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority. well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.
~ James Patterson
Does anything on you work properly? Asked ter Borcht. Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony. Replied Iggy.
~ James Patterson
Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. Does anysing on you vork properly? Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.
~ James Patterson
Irony sort of reaches up and slaps you in the face sometimes, doesn't it?
~ James Patterson
Don't you just hate it when you go to a friend's funeral and you get kidnapped?
~ James Patterson
called in sick. Ironically, the reason was food poisoning, perhaps caused by sampling one of the hospital's entrées.
~ James Patterson
many people are surprised to hear that there are comedians in Russia, but they are there. They're dead, but they're there.
~ James Patterson
That damned smart-phone is the stupidest gadget I've ever owned.
~ James Patterson
Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.
~ Stephen Gaghan
Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
~ Laura Dern