Quotes About Irony

I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan.

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

All of Vegas is false. There's a false Paris, a false Venice, a false Baghdad - in fact, all of the early Vegas aesthetic is Baghdad, which is also the irony. It's 'Aladdin,' the sands, 'One Thousand and One Nights.'

I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.

We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironically, it was his illness and losing his voice that caused him to explore another venue.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

But out of the many ironies in my current unhappy contretemps, perhaps the worst of all is that I, Dexter the Monster, Dexter the Ultimate Outsider, Dexter the Nonhuman—I, too, am reduced in extremis to that ultimate human lament: Why Me?

Just remember, New York isn't an offshoot of Bloomsbury. Forget refinement, understatement and irony. However much it's against your better nature, you'll have to learn to sell your wares like an East End barrow boy.

Christ, I'm in a Doris Day movie

I had been particularly taken by a scene in The Old Country where Hilary, the spy who has defected to Moscow, muses about England: 'We're conceived in irony. We float in it from the womb. It's the amniotic fluid. It's the silver sea. It's the waters at their priest-like task, washing away guilt and purpose and responsibility. Joking but not joking. Caring but not caring. Serious but not serious.

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

It all comes of being so attractive, as the old lady said when she was struck by lightning.

everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. George

but there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

No, what was sad in his case was that he, who didn't care for carved oak, should have his drawing-room panelled with it, while people who do care for it have to pay enormous prices to get it.  It seems to be the rule of this world. 

When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.

Great Johnstown Flood, which killed more than 2,300 people, 300 of them suffering the horrible irony of dying in fires started by the water.

There's nothing sadder than a sobbing waffle.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.