Quotes About Irony

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

I laugh a lot at my own shortcomings. I see irony in most things and I'm outspoken, but I bring a sense of humor to any office. I think it provides a nice balance of warmth in a work setting.

I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition—the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a precopulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck. To this day, I still don't know what went wrong.

I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a precopulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck. To this day, I still don't know what went wrong.

To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.

The worst men often give the best advice.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

Is that what we are? Fools?" "Certainly. But at least we know we're fools. And in today's Germany, that counts as a kind of wisdom." •

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Doctor Spielvogel, this is my life, my only life, and I'm living it in the middle of a Jewish joke! I am the son in the Jewish joke—only it ain't no joke!

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

The irony at the base of this situation is that the gospel of the free market is just as ideological as those of communism and fascism.

Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

there was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim." He

I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

If I've got a confidence problem, it's that my self-esteem is entirely too high.

I have a sick sense of humor. Like, I'm always laughing at my own pain.

I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess.