Quotes About Irony

A hypocrite is a person who—but who isn't? —DON MARQUIS I

Tu come va? - Bene. A parte che sto male, bene.

Vuoi diventare adulta? E' la cosa più infantile che abbia mai sentito.

There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'

In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.

I find it odd that people take me seriously.

With my humor, I end up offending everybody!

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

In any case, I would never make a film that was only one thing. Even if it's my warmest, most romantic film, I still want it to have the more cynical view of things, showing the irony and absurdity of things that we consider normal.

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die. He

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

And all men kill the thing they love, By all 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!" Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

My dear fellow, I am not quite serious. But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Los ingleses tienen 3 cosas de las que mostrarse orgullosos: El té, el whisky y un escritor como yo. Pero resulta que el té es chino; el whisky, escocés; y yo soy irlandés.

People die of common sense

Looking around his hotel room not long before expiring: This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

Yet each man kills the things he loves

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. dup

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously.  If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't.  Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. LADY

I'm so clever, I don't understand half of the things I'm saying.

My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.