Quotes About Irony

I soon discovered the truth of an old saying: "When God wants to punish you, he grants your wishes.

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Why were men such fools, that they created the very hurts for themselves that they most feared?

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion; if you want to live in the paradise where happy mares and stallion live, open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

El talento de un ilustrador se basa en estar absolutamente atento a la belleza del instante presente y tomárselo todo en serio, hasta el menor detalle, mientras al mismo tiempo es capaz de retirarse un paso y, como si lo observara en un espejo, introducir entre él y el mundo, que tan en serio se toma a sí mismo, su habilidad y la distancia que le proporciona la ironía.

Whoop-de-do, said Ram. What? I'm celebrating. Was that irony or loss of mental function? asked the expendable. Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in me? I have no confidence in you, Ram, said the expendable. Well, thanks. You're welcome.

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not

You guessed it! And you say you aren't creative! We did not guess anythiung. We deduced it from the plethora of data you provided us, both consciously and unconsciously. And yet you couldn't detect the irony in my enthusiasm. We detected it. As information, however, it was worthless.

Graff smiled a little Mona Lisa smile, if Mona Lisa had been a pudgy colonel.

Watch closely, folks, here it is: Science, the ugly little beast that devours itself!)

Mother's ironic vision of life as one prank after another

Mother's ironic vision of life as one prank after another, in the midst of which you did what was needed.

Still not dead," she said. She had greeted him with these words each time she woke during the past few days. At first the words had seemed whimsical or ironic to him, but now he knew that she spoke with disappointment. She longed for death now, not because she hadn't loved life, but because death was now unavoidable, and what cannot be shunned must be embraced. That was the Path. Jiang-qing had never taken a step away from the Path in her life.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.