Quotes About Irony

We are all only God's joke here having the same punch line.

The irony of all this was not lost on the press, which reported, with some incredulity, that Manson had taken the stand to defend the man who had convicted him of seven murders!

As yet, there was nothing for it but to endure. We became fond of responding to irony in novels of love as one would to a finger pressed against the flesh near an open sore.

Even he who laughs best can be hurt by a jest.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.

Good-natured satirists often remark that "the best way to cure an Anarchist is to give him a fortune." Substituting "corrupt" for "cure," I would subscribe to this;

A woman drove me to drink, and I'll be a son-of-a-gun but I never even wrote to thank her.

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

I like children - fried.

Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore, always carry a small snake.

Drowned in a vat of whiskey... Oh Death, where is thy sting?

In a tragic contradiction between the normal and the exceptional, there is suffering, in a comic contradiction, none.

There was an old man of St. Bees, Who was stung in the arm by a wasp; When they asked, "Does it hurt?" He replied, "No, it doesn't, But I thought all the while 'twas a Hornet.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but remember it didn't work for the rabbit!

I was Christmas shopping and ran into a guy on the street. I noticed his watch and said that it runs slow. He said, "So does the guy I stole it from."

Talk about cheap - on Christmas Eve, my neighbour shoots off three blanks and tells his kids Santa Claus just committed suicide.

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!

Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.

It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.

His computer password is "password.