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Quotes About Irony

Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.
~ Will Rogers
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
~ Groucho Marx
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
~ Oscar Levant
This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.
~ Waylon Jennings
I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.
~ Art Buchwald
My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
~ Henny Youngman
My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?
~ Mitch Hedberg
I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
~ Dylan Moran
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.
~ Philip K. Dick
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
~ Mark Twain
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.
~ Samuel Beckett, Endgame
She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises
~ William Congreve
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
~ Woody Allen
It must be a cruel joke of nature that people who are so bad for us, make us feel so good.
~ Unknown
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
~ Gore Vidal
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded
~ George Orwell
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
~ Larry Gelbart
Another cruel morning has come. Oh, joy!
~ Unknown
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
~ Unknown
On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time to cheat him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four
~ Tom Lehrer
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
It's ironic that the people who complain about drama are the ones who fuel the fire with it; Simple solution to drama - keep your mouth shut!
~ Unknown
We live in a strange world where the poor walk miles to get food, and the rich walk miles to digest food.
~ Mufti Ismail Menk
Health food makes me sick.
~ Calvin Trillin