Quotes About Irony

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!

Mesdames, un conseil. Si vous cherchez un homme beau, riche et intelligent... Prenez-en trois ! lol

It's just that sometimes I think I would have found my life pretty funny if I hadnt had to live it.

sometimes I think I would have found my life pretty funny if I hadnt had to live it.

Odd the way the world is. How you can have just about anything except what you want.

How about this: What's black and white and red all over? I cant begin to think. Trotsky in a tuxedo. Great. Okay. How about this one. A farmer finds two boll weevils in his cotton patch. You told me. I never. He chose the lesser of two weevils.

Per poco Salima non scoppiò a ridere. Se lo faceva lei era un crimine, se lo metteva in vendita un'azienda era un prodotto. Qualsiasi cosa poteva diventare un prodotto.

It gave you ironic distance—a very now kind of high. Conspiracy

There's an old joke about a skydiver who's blown off course and ends up landing in a tree, dangling above the ground. After awhile someone walks by and the skydiver asks where he is. The passerby answers, "You're about 20 feet off the ground." The skydiver replies "You must be a software analyst." "You're right. How did you know?" asks the passerby. "Because what you told me was 100 percent accurate, but completely worthless.

The dissonant irony here is that the affluence that gives the Western Buddhist their privilege, and gave them the opportunity to engage Buddhism in the first place, is part of what the Buddha meant by samsara, the world of attachment and consequent suffering. In a sense, Buddhist practice in the West is dependant upon continued delusion, especially those delusion that cause us to identify with class-appropriate roles.

Irony is the glory of slaves.

For even satire is a form of sympathy.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.

Sarcasm is a suit of armor.

The irony, he said,...is that now that I'm this blind man, it's clearer to me now than it's ever been before. What that line? 'Was blind but now I see...

Joined together, they made a kind of centaur—half bastard, half bitch. Dottie would have laughed out loud at that.

another thing, Leo talking about abstinence is like Donald Trump talking about altruism.

I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway.

They didn't allow kids in the visiting area, which was funny. It was funny because if I wasn't locked up, I wouldn't be allowed to come into the visiting room.