Quotes About Irony

Quizá no haya nada en el mundo que me interese tanto como este sentimiento de aventura. Pero viene cuando quiere; y se va tan rápido, que me deja agotado. ¿Me hará estas breves visitas irónicas para demostrarme que he frustado mi vida?

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy

Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption.

I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our behaviour.

THE STRONGEST IS NEVER STRONG enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. Hence the right of the strongest, which, though to all seeming meant ironically, is really laid down as a fundamental principle.

You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.

In irony a man annihilates what he posits within one and the same act; he leads us to believe in order not to be believed; he affirms to deny and denies to affirm; he creatives a positive object but it has no being other than its nothingness.

One cannot help reflecting on the irony that the celebrated philosopher of freedom, the great atheist, maintained an almost religious faith in an ideology that vandalized the very face of freedom. In fact, Sartre was largely unpolitical during the 1930s (he did not vote), and Nausea is political only, as it were, at its margins.

Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.

Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

My wife and I got remarried. Our divorce didn't work out.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht. "Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.

I guess that compared to other comic strips, I'm edgy. But put me along something like 'South Park,' and I'm 'Captain Kangaroo.'

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.