Quotes About Irony

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Death laughs when old women frolic.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card.

I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.

I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing."

what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration.

But wit or irony is like a hitch in his swing for a kid like the Swede, irony being a human consolation and beside the point if you're getting your way as a god.

In one of history's great ironies, scientists today know vastly more than their colleagues a century ago, and possess vastly more data-crunching power, but they are much less confident in the prospects for perfect predictability.

May he have an accident shaped like an umbrella.

They so wanted it to be simple, believers. "It is what is!" they cried, sneering at the possibility of other eyes, other truths, overlooking their own outrageous presumption. "It says what it says," spoken with a conviction that was itself insincerity. They ridiculed questions, for fear it would make their ignorance plain. Then they dared call themselves "open." This was the iron habit of Men.