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Quotes About Irony

Really? Is he running for Worst Boyfriend Ever? In the subcategory of Completely Awesome.
~ Rachel Caine
Saint Claire, the patron saint of the kick-me sign.
~ Rachel Caine
Perhaps one day I'd be made a saint—the patron saint of fools and lovers, if those terms were not exactly the same.
~ Rachel Caine
To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.
~ Rachel Carson
It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within. (Aug 1953 letter to the editor of The Washington Post)
~ Rachel Carson
Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke
~ Rachel Cohn
The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.
~ Rachel Cohn
I may have a potty mouth, but I do not get caught in illicit sexual encounters in Marriotts, for fuck's sake. I guess I could be open to a Ritz-Carlton or a Four Seasons, but a Marriott, no fucking way! Yet here I am. And there's nowhere else I'd rather be. What spell has this boy cast on me? I
~ Rachel Cohn
A lot of people these days are the opposite of what they say they are, and a lot of them probably don't even realize it. They're opposed to racism even as they act like racists. They're opposed to fascism, even as they act like fascists. The world's gone weird.
~ Dean Koontz
Freud would have had a grand time analyzing my have-to-die-clean complex. But then Freud was an ass.
~ Dean Koontz
his jewelry was custom designed for the very rich and tasteless, people who would find it necessary to buy hundred-thousand-dollar necklaces to wear to a thousand-dollar-a-plate charity dinner, and never grasp the irony.
~ Dean Koontz
wouldn't that be ironic—run down by a hearse? God knows, life is often ironic in a way it's never shown on television.
~ Dean Koontz
So the peacemakers were bomb makers." "A lot of people these days are the opposite of what they say they are, and a lot of them probably don't even realize it. They're opposed to racism even as they act like racists. They're opposed to fascism, even as they act like fascists. The world's gone weird.
~ Dean Koontz
Who could help laughing at a group of people who heatedly declared that God was dead and clung to the belief that Elvis was alive?
~ Debbie Macomber
There are consequences in owning an alley cat, Mr. Walker. Even one named Dog." Lacey knew how pious she sounded. Lines of righteousness creased her face as she let herself out.
~ Debbie Macomber
If Donald Trump puked, Copley Place is probably what would hit the toilet.
~ Dennis Lehane
He's happy. And isn't that the worst of all possible outcomes?
~ Dennis Lehane
as usual in such matters, God's sense of humor trumped all imagination.
~ Diana Gabaldon
They should have been ridiculous, and perhaps they were.
~ Diana Gabaldon
When people come up to me and ask for my autograph and everything... I find it funny that people want my autograph.
~ Ron Stallworth
I tend to like dry humor.
~ Dan Scanlon
If you like dry humor, Henrik Stenson thinks he's very funny, but I think I'm very funny in a dry sense as well.
~ Tommy Fleetwood
I am attracted to dumb people.
~ Jesse Watters
I don't have email.
~ David Sedaris