Quotes About Irony

There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

One who pursues a goal through sinful ways, will ironically distance himself from that goal, and will approach what he was afraid of.

My wife is in the heroin business and I am not on good terms with her,' Devendra said. Jayshree, who was also upset with her mother's attempts to keep her away from her lover and force her into the drug trade, also decided to stand witness against her. Papamani was finally convicted and put behind bars in 2004. It was ironic that the two people for whom Papamani earned turned against her. While she had so many followers, none of them were in her family.

there was a generation in the U.K. who'd grown up reading DC comics from a bizarre perspective. In America, those comics were perceived without irony; in England, they were like postcards from another world. The idea of a place that looked like New York, the idea of fire hydrants and pizzerias, was just as strange to us as the idea that anyone would wear a cape and fly over them.

It is ironic that a number of eminent Christians were charged with the care of the same plant whose consumption had been linked with the arch-fiend and enemy of their church.

What do you mean, funny? Funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?

Funny-peculiar or funny-ha-ha

Ladies and gentlemen, cizzens, I give you—satire!

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Honey in the mouth, Dagger in the stomach

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Pobreza: el resultado del matrimonio.

What's green and blue and yellow and black? A burnt peacock.

The irony of Hank Williams' relationship with the Opry is that some Opry stars were on the show for forty, fifty, or even sixty years, but Hank Williams remains the star associated in most people's minds with the Grand Ole Opry, despite the fact that he was on the show for only three years.

He kicked each of his shoes over the wall and into the crowd, adding, "that some friends of his had often said he should die in his shoes, but that he would make them liars.

Mesdames, un conseil. Si vous cherchez un homme beau, riche et intelligent... Prenez-en trois !" Ladies, a word of advice. If you're looking for a handsome, rich and intelligent man… Take three!

A Texas bank robber wrote his hold-up note on the back of his resume, on which he lied about his earlier robberies.

The funniest people are the saddest once

The funniest people are the saddest ones

I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit. from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood

The irony does not go unnoticed that here the Pope now proposes to elevate Serra to sainthood and yet, many know him to be a monster who separated, butchered and maimed Native families - all in the name of Christ, military and progress.