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Quotes About Irony

if you're the sickness, i suppose you can't also be the cure
~ Holly Black
Si tú eres la enfermedad, supongo que no puedes ser la cura al mismo tiempo.
~ Holly Black
If your the sickness,I suppose you can't also be the cure - Carden
~ Holly Black
If you're the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure.
~ Holly Black
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!
~ Unknown
Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.
~ Unknown
That was the irony: Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing.
~ Liane Moriarty
The weather wasn't helping. It was far too lovely, mocking her pain.
~ Liane Moriarty
The drama of her delivery was so deliberately hyperbolic it wasn't even funny. It should have been funny, yet it wasn't.
~ Liane Moriarty
That was the irony: Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing. Erika
~ Liane Moriarty
Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In fact, she felt like there should be some sort of recognition for her remarkable strength of character that she didn't.
~ Liane Moriarty
Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else. Oh, it was a funny old world.
~ Liane Moriarty
I'd rather get eaten by an epileptic shark.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Funny how irony is never tragic to them, only comic.' 'Because death is not tragic to them, not in the way it is to us,' I said. 'They mourn.' 'They feel sorrow, great sorrow. But it isn't tragic.' 'No, it isn't. They know their ancestors have a plan for them. There's no sense that it was wrong. Tragedy is based on this sense that there's been a terrible mistake, isn't it?
~ Lily King
Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies.
~ Linda Grant
In addition to institutional embarrassment in many quarters, there was a particular irony to this failure of information. The Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence depends to a considerable measure on the justices' assessment of public opinion as reflected in statutes. A punishment that is demonstrably "unusual" is deemed constitutionally problematic.
~ Unknown
One thing that you and I have in common is that we both love me.
~ Unknown
It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them
~ Lionel Shriver
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
~ Lionel Trilling
Weaponry, trips to the sun country, tiny bathing suits, For Christmas. "Nothing says Peace on Earth like guns and string bikinis.
~ Lisa Jackson
It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. "No, the divorce was great," I said. "It was the marriage that sucked.
~ Lisa Kleypas
You're so full of it, darlin'.
~ Lisa Kleypas
You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause I always thought of them as American values.
~ Amy Chua