Quotes About Irony

Oviedo y Valdes, Bat? Hint Adalar?'nda hastal?ktan (büyük ihtimâlle frengi) çekmi? ilk hristiyan yerle?imcilerden bahseder ve ekler: "?talyanlar?n buna 'Frans?z Hastal???' ve Frans?zlar?n da 'Napoli Hastal???' dedi?ini duyup çok güldüm; asl?nda ikisi de 'Hint Adalar? Hastal???' deseymi? daha yerinde olurmu?.

They say when you die there's a light at the end of the tunnel. When my father dies, he'll see the light, make his way toward it, and then flip it off to save electricity.

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

You can't camp about something you don't take seriously. You're not making fun of it. You're making fun out of it.

the place where optism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?

Let's go eat turkey before I beat the crap put of my cousin." The way he said it, Vlad wasn't sure if Henry wanted to eat instead of beating Joss to a pulp, or if he just didn't want to do it on an empty stomach.

When everything is bent into a jolly shape, everything feels more mournful than it should.

The irony of instant gratification is that it leaves such lasting scars.

There goes the world's wimpiest vampire.

What about Melissa?" I ask. "She's angry at you for ending things with her. Maybe this is her way of teaching you a lesson." "A total possibility. I'm definitely sweet and studly enough to drive a girl literally insane, wouldn't you say?" He flexes his biceps to be funny. "Can we please try to be serious here?

should be obvious—stupid people need to read books in order to get smarter, but unfortunately people who like books are usually smart already, and stupid people do not read. Maybe this is tragic irony, or maybe cause and effect. I do not know. What I do

There is a (slight) chance that I might be going to hell.

I resent it being a truth universally acknowledged, no matter what era I find myself in, that a single woman of thirty must be in want of a husband.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

Bello como el encuentro fortruito de una máquina de coser y un paraguas en una mesa de disección.

It is one of the enduring ironies of history that established systems of hierarchy rarely find it necessary to rely on sensible defenses as an essential means of maintaining power.

So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.

If I felt any better I'd be unconscious.

Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best way to keep it at arm's length.

A dry little laugh at the grotesquerie of using this stock phrase. At having occasion to use it.

Eve was sure he was saluted at birth by the obstetrician instead of spanked.

not that anyone was actually keeping one.

It's lovely. I hate it.