Quotes About Irony

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else.

One of the ironies, as some have observed, is that the secular project has itself become a religion, pursued with religious fervor. It is taking on all the trappings of a religion – including inquisitions and excommunication. Those who defy the creed risk a figurative burning at the stake – social, educational, and professional ostracism and exclusion waged through lawsuits and savage social media campaigns.

I love to use these phrases - 'with the greatest respect', 'in all modest', 'I humbly submit' - which in fact always imply the complete opposite.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

The Stoic philosopher and playwright Seneca is said to have owned five hundred tripod tables with ivory legs—no small irony, since he was a vocal critic of the empire's extravagances.

Their leader wore a Nazi helmet and had renamed himself Heimlich in honor of the man who ran the SS, not knowing he'd confused the Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choke victims and Heinrich Himmler.

Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Coulda made something o' himself. But a luckless man. All his days a luckless man. The kinna man woulda got two complimentary tickets for the Titanic." The unintentional humour of her remark was like her natural appetite for life reasserting itself. Harkness couldn't stop smiling. It was as if Glasgow couldn't shut the wryness of its mouth even at the edge of the grave.

The kinna man woulda got two complimentary tickets for the Titanic.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

God laughs at people like us.

It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

Make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us.