Quotes About Irony

McKeon: "You know Hauptman is going to deny they had anything to do with it [smuggling]." "Forty-three million in illegal peltries? Of course they will, just as Mondragon 's captain insists the space fairies must have brought them," Honor said ironically.

It had to be the greatest irony in the history of mankind, he thought. The last Christian in the entire universe was a machine.

A man and a woman cannot live together without having against each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered that the other is not only a fool, but a great fool.

Sarà per via dell'Antrios, sarà stato l'acquisto dell'Antrios?... No... Il male viene da molto più lontano... Viene dal giorno in cui hai usato, senza un briciolo di ironia, il termine decostruzione, riferendoti a un oggetto d'arte. E non è stato il termine decostruzione a irritarmi, ma la gravità con cui l'hai pronunciato. Lo hai detto, amico mio, con solennità, con convinzione, senza la minima ironia: decostruzione .

I would have liked you better as a criminal or a terrorist than as a militant in the cause of happiness.

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

He must have made that before he died.

Things don't like me. Furniture purposely sticks out its leg for me. A polished corner once literally bit me. My blanket and I have always had a complicated relationship. Soup served to me never cools. Any little thing—a coin or a cuff link—that falls off the table usually rolls away under furniture that's hard to move. I crawl across the floor and lifting my head I see the sideboard laughing.)

The only thing to see is the obligatory third-world Coke billboard, ironic in exact proportion to the distance from its proper American context. This one says COKE—MAKE IT REAL. Just after the Coke sign there is a contrary sign, an indication that irony is not a currency in Liberia. It is worn by a girl who leans against the exit in a T-shirt that says THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD.

Ten ?wiat nie zginie od bomby atomowej, jak prorokuj? gazety, ale umrze ze ?miechu, ze strywalizowania, z obracania wszystkiego w ?art, na domiar z?ego w kiepski ?art.

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

I can see humor in almost anything.

Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That's what we do on 'Portlandia' all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything.

I love animals and they're very easy to look after when they're dead.

I lived in my car in Hollywood for a year, and then it got towed. My... apartment got towed. How... does that happen?

ironia este însu?irea fundamental? a providen?ei

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

Risk arises as investor behaviour alters the market. Investors bid up assets, accelerating into the present appreciation that otherwise would have occurred in the future, and thus lowering prospective returns. The ultimate irony lies in the fact that the reward for taking incremental risk shrinks as more people move to take it.

They came close. Oh they came close. Was all set to put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger. But there was a computer glitch. Isnt that something? A stupid glitch and I had to wait a few days and then I saw the errors of my ways, saw so clearly that I was killing the wrong person. Its not me that needs killing, its them. Funny how things can change in the wink of an eye.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.