Quotes About Irony

Humour is the courtesy of despair

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.'

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?

I'd love to see the Iron Jackal's face when he finds out I'm already dead," he said with half a grin. "Now that's irony." "No it ain't, Cap'n. It's just some shit that happened.

Kierkegaard - L'ironie, dit-on, consiste à parler légèrement de choses graves, l'humour à parler gravement de choses légères.

Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.

They say one thing and another thing and both at once;

I enjoy a misogynist so long as they have a wicked sense of humor and know, on some level, that they're pigs. This is why I enjoy Philip Roth but not Saul Bellow or James Salter.

It was difficult to understand him. On the one hand he pandered even to the most unimportant things while on the other he was excessive and unfeeling. He might show the most fatherly concern for a female secretary who had stabbed her toe but be utterly ice-cold when issuing orders which set thousands to their deaths.

I cry because I don't have the upper-arm strength to flatiron my hair. I

I looked so preppy you'd guess my tramp stamp was a monogram

My sense of humor will be a ray of sunshine if our plane death-spirals into the frozen tundra

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.

He who laughs last didn't get it.

T)here was no missing the enormous irony of the fact that from Russia--"a country where her poems were needed, like bread, she had ended up in a country where nobody needed her or anyone else's poems. Even Russian people in emigration ceased to need them," Tsvetaeva said, "And that made Russian poets miserable.

Anecdotes are funny when you tell them," said Teffi. "But when you live through them it's a tragedy. And my life is one big joke-- in other words, a tragedy.

Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

The wisest fool in Christendom [James I of England].

I detected sarcoma." He put his finger on his neck. "Right here." The other man nodded--his head seemed to be nodding continually--and muttered: "Yes. There's no possibility of operating." "Of course not," said the old specialist, his eyes shining with a kind of sinister irony. "There's only one thing that could remove it--the guillotine.

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

One fool at least in every married couple.

Jane Collier's Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (a spoof conduct book published in 1753)

Don't underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.