Quotes About Irony

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'

Don't you find it fascinating, boy-o, that the people who call on God the most believe in God the least?

There is a bitter irony for listeners here in the exhortations of the BBC to the Italian people to rid themselves of the Germans: so might one urge a sheep to rid itself of a wolf.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

ODESSA IS A NASTY PLACE. Everybody knows that.

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

It is a bitter irony of history, indeed, that the founder of communism should be literally kept alive by a wealthy industrialist, and that a "capitalist's" son, turned communist, should become the second "father" of this revolutionary movement.

Our language is funny — a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Surely Paul's moral and spiritual greatness is all the more evident the more he is studied and analyzed. It is sheer irony and miracle that God would select one of the most aggressive opponents of the early Christian movement and make him into its most outstanding leader.

You may want to find a way to suggest ironic distance between the poet and speaker.

I feel like I should apologize. I didn't want to like you, but I couldn't help it." "Really? I wanted to like you. Wow, you're like the meanest woman ever.

All the way to hell. In a fancy paper hat.

Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at

Yeah, if Mickey Mouse was a mass murderer.

Miss Small was the opposite of her name. It was like a fat guy was named Mr. Thin or a dumb guy was named Mr. Smart or a really handsome guy was named Mr. Ugly or…well, you get the idea.

She must be the tallest person in the history of the world! Miss Small was the opposite of her name. It was like a fat guy was named Mr. Thin or a dumb guy was named Mr. Smart or a really handsome guy was named Mr. Ugly or…well, you get the idea.

If we hear a joke so awful that we laugh at how bad it is, we are taking part in the irony; in other words, the joke did not contain irony; irony was provided by our response. Why is it ironic? Because the intent of the joke was to get laughter, and it did—but for the wrong reason.

To suppress the vote is to make a mockery of democracy. And those who do so are essentially acknowledging that their policies are unpopular. If you can't convince a majority of voters that your ideas are worthy, you try to limit the pool of voters. This reveals a certain irony: Many who are most vocal in championing a free, open, and dynamic economy are the same political factions that suppress these principles when it comes to the currency of ideas.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

I'm thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome