Quotes About Irony

Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.

If I ever write an autobiography, 'Hilariously Unhappy' could very well be the title.

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me.

It really is ironic that the saddest I'd ever been was when I had 'achieved' all the things I had wanted. I was so disgustingly thin, but I was so unhappy.

I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

Women; can't live with em, can't kill em

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

A black widow loves her mate then kills him. A praying mantis loves her mate then eats him. Women love my dad, but he's too big to eat.

I have nothing against women. Some of my best wives were women.

Don't you just hate it, when you are in bed with three beautiful women, and the least attractive one whispers: save it for me!

Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.

Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.

When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?

Be careful when you ask Karma for something that you have always wanted. When I was young, I asked to be surrounded by beautiful women. Now I have a wife and four daughters.

And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.

Women!" he muttered. "Can't live with 'em, can't escape even by killing 'em.

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

It is ironic my father is now my biggest fan. I got beat up by him whenever I stepped out to play football! I was always on the receiving end of my father's belt or whatever else he could find. Sometimes I laugh, but I guess it's been written by God that my life would take such a route. He was only looking out for me.