Quotes About Irony

So do extremes meet; and such is sometimes the all-embracing capacity of the approval of a fool!

Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by successful rebels of the methods they were accustomed to condemn in the forces they deposed.

There is no humorist like history.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present

In death there are smaller premises, littler ironies.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.

The best often seem the worst

Curiously, the failures of Communism are more often treated as a joke than as a tragedy.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

sardonic cerebral pity of the intelligent for any human injustice or folly or suffering

I can't imagine cutting my wrists in Pokheepsie

I have often raised an eyebrow at hearing him sing, as I push a cart down some Safeway aisle, of the spiritual complexities induced by he admixture of Cuervo Gold, cocaine, and nineteen-year-old girls (in the hands of a man of, shall we say, a certain age). At which point I look around Frozen Foods and wonder: Is anyone else hearing this?

poor Byron, whose car had been run over by an autopiloted eighteen-wheeler on Valentine's Day, about

I didn't come out here to be abused by vintage product from the Hefty toy department.

The social and political naivete of modern corporate boffins is frightening, they read me and just take bits, all the cute technology, and miss about fifteen levels of irony.

Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.

myself am often surprised at life's little quirks

O the irony of desire, always hearkening after the liquid glimmer beyond the distant-most dune. Sometimes only to find that it is no different from the parched sand on which we stood days, months, years ago, in yearning.

Left alone to die on a frozen hill! I, whose life had been a rush of attending to the needs of my five husbands—how ironic that at the moment of my own final need not one of them should be with me!

Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music... That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.

Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.

The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.

It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.

The Ramones give Needles & Pins the possibility of irony, but the irony doesn't undercut the song's emotion, it makes it stronger and more true.