Quotes About Irony

There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.

Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

As a rule, anyone desirous of an audience, or even a place in society, might profit from the following motto: "If you can't say something positive about humanity, then say something equivocal.

The problem is that we've got a sense of humor and (Republicans have) got guns. Will we die laughing?

This is the twenty-first century. We were supposed to be choking on overpopulation, eating Soylent Green, and joining gangs in the wasteland to protect our supplies of water and gasoline. Instead, we're put out when the Wi-Fi goes down on our flight to Orlando.

Money! Ho, ho! 'T'as been my want so long, 'tis now my scoff. I've e'en forgot what colour silver's of.

He even assembled coops for poultry, not unaware of the irony that he was a prisoner building a prison for lesser creatures.

perfectly awful things. Farces,—that's what they are!

Doña Clara was in the hands of malignant Nature who reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Arriva il momento quando l'astuzia e la spiritosaggine sono spazzate via. Si trema all'idea che si sarà rimpinzati di finali tristi fino a farceli uscire dalle orecchie. Quelli che la gente considera finali lieti non sono, naturalmente, finali: i finali sono per definizione tristi.

And for those playing along at home, we have a new number one for the oxymoron files: death benefits.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.

I'm quite happy to laugh at Argentina's obsession with ham and cheese, but not, you know, delicate bits of their history.

I feel strange when I get applauded by people in power... because it's obvious that it's them I'm criticizing, but they can't show that in front of the cameras. It's quite funny sometimes.

Am I disappointed occasionally by the lack of irony in some movies? Yes.

Catch-22' is the big daddy of funny war novels. It's capacious and occasionally rambling. It's a bible of literate comedy: you can find anything you want inside - it's all in there.

There have been occasions when some people have taken me very seriously.

Yeah, fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of a clap.

Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?