Quotes About Irony

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

There is nothing like being told to go fuck yourself by the same person who was, only days before, praying on your behalf.

Cunning iz very apt tew outwit itself. The man who turned the boat over and got under it tew keep out ov the rain, waz one ov this kind.

Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.

That's how it always is," Koznyshev interrupted him. "We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it's one of our good national characteristics. I mean this faculty of seeing our own shortcomings. But we overdo it. We comfort ourselves with ironic remarks which are always on the tip of the tongue.

He now often remembered his conversation with Prince Andrew and quite agreed with him, though he understood Prince Andrew's thoughts somewhat differently. Prince Andrew had thought and said that happiness could only be negative, but had said it with a shade of bitterness and irony

Tal vez la facultad de ver los defectos propios sea un hermoso rasgo de nuestro carácter. Pero los exageramos y nos consolamos de ellos con la ironía que tenemos siempre en los labios.

We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it's our strong point, really, the faculty of seeing our own shortcomings; but we overdo it, we comfort ourselves with irony which we always have on the tip of our tongues. All I say is, give such rights as our local self-government to any other European people—why, the Germans or the English would have worked their way to freedom from them, while we simply turn them into ridicule.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. (a reference to a Tom Paine quote)

I feel emotionally conflicted. It's like when your mother in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche.

Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.

Any irony intended proved words wasted, for they were drowned in Isabella's rapacity.

The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

It turns out that President Obama has acid reflux. He had a sore throat, went to the hospital, and they diagnosed it as acid reflux. Talk about irony -- it's not covered by Obamacare.

Health clubs aren't healthy. In New York City, which has the most stairs of anywhere in the country, people pay money to go to a health club and use a stair master. When you live in a city, that has nothing but stairs and you pay money to use special stairs, that is not healthy behavior. It's f***ing PSYCHOTIC!

Dick Cheney...and that's all I've gotta say.

Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.

Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.

The one thing that makes me laugh about the phrase 'the worst week of my life' is that nobody actually uses that phrase when something really bad happens.