Quotes About Irony

It would seem, O Nushain, that you have doubted your own horoscope,' said the guide, with a certain irony. 'However, even a bad astrologer, on occasion, may read the heavens aright. Obey, then, the stars that decreed your journey.

Per Goethe [...] l'innaturale probabilmente non esisteva: la natura goethiana abbraccia e avvolge ogni cosa ed è lei che muove e crea, con elusiva ironia, tutte le forme, pure quelle che sembrano negarla e che agli uomini appaiono "innaturali". (Danubio, p.37)

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

That, in fact, was the joke that killed him: he was arrested soon after making

Whoever said "Wagner's music isn't as bad as it sounds" was as wrong as he was funny,

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

TOBY-CHIEN : Qu'est-ce que tu fais aujourd'hui ? KIKI-LA-DOUCETTE : Mais...rien TOBY-CHIEN ironique : Pour changer. KIKI-LA-DOUCETTE : Pardon, pour ne pas changer. Quelle est cette rage de changement qui vous possède tous ? Changer, c'est détruire. Il n'y a d'éternel que ce qui ne bouge pas. TOBY-CHIEN : Voilà déjà bien trois heures que je suis éternel.

A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.

But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least....

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

It is in the irony of Providence that the more man comes to control the material world about him, the more does he lose control over the effects of his action; and it is when he is remaking the world most speedily that he knows least whither he is driving.

Here richly, with ridiculous display,The Politician's corpse was laid away.While all of his acquaintance sneered and slangedI wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

And indeed, who can doubt that everything would be different and better, if only England were ruled by village idiots and their drunken friends?

Main gangu teli ko doon raj,Gadhon ke sar pe rakh doon taj (I'll make the laziest person as the king, I'll place the crown on the heads of donkeys)

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe

Si tú eres la enfermedad, supongo que no puedes ser también la cura.

They say faeries weep at weddings and laugh at funerals, but I thought your wedding and funeral were equally funny.

You're awful.' He said it as though he was delighted. 'And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.