Quotes About Irony

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.

Like all true horse's asses, he hoped to go into politics.

Like some strange little religion all its own, the one thing that makes the whole system work is the one thing that it robs you of - faith.

A while after I was old enough to understand this story, I pointed out how backwards it was to have fled to the nation that had driven them out of theirs, but they never copped to the irony of it. They needed to believe they'd done the right thing and that it made sense.

Glad to see you, Pettigrew. Are you defending the bigamy to-morrow?" "Alas! I am neither prosecuting nor defending. In fact, I am here on false pretences. For the time being, I am the lowest thing in the scale of human creation." The Clerk's bushy eyebrows met in a frown. "You're not going to tell me you've been summoned on a jury?" he said incredulously.

If you can't laugh at the dark, you shouldn't grin like the Sphinx. Understand?

If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.

Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

My humor was Victorian - and still is.

In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, celebrity endorsements possibly damaged Hillary Clinton, since they allowed Donald Trump to emphasise that she was part of an out-of-touch elite. That is ironic, given that Mr Trump owed his election victory to his own celebrity status on a TV reality show.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

It's nothing for you to worry about." "Whenever someone says that," Pandora said, "it always means the opposite. Along with 'It's only a scratch' or 'Worse things happen at sea.' " "Or," Clara added glumly, 'I'm only going out for a pint.

Beatrix fled to the one place where she knew he wouldn't find her. The irony was hardly lost on her, that she was hiding from Christopher in the place she had most longed to share with him. And she was well aware that she could not hide from him forever. There would be a reckoning. But after having seen his face when he realized that she was the one who had deceived him, Beatrix wanted to put off that reckoning for as long as possible.

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

I might come but I won't like it." His lips turned up slowly. "You won't like it?" "Okay, I might like it, but I won't be happy I liked it." He bit back a broader smile.

You're also collecting an archive of the absurdity of value.

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.

Life's funny. Sometimes it's your oyster, and sometimes you're it's bitch-slapped man-whore.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.