Quotes About Irony

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, here is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

It might be a strange irony that the cure for worrying about ageing is sometimes, well, ageing .

This human was female. She was called Priti, which was pronounced "pretty" and means pretty. Unfortunate, given that she was human and, by her very nature, vomit-provoking.

because they believed in free will. Ha! Humans

Buster never cracks a smile. Ever. No matter what. That's what really makes it funny.

Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity.

Irony alert: the most important news story in the world is the inability of the ordinary news consumer to understand the news. This is no dig against readers. The world has just grown so complex that the majority of serious issues are beyond the understanding of non-specialists.

Lots of people have remarked on the irony of this absurd caricature of a spoiled rich kid connecting so well with working-class America. But Trump does have something very much in common with everybody else. He watches TV. That's his primary experience with reality, and just like most of his voters, he doesn't realize that it's a distorted picture. If

Who was it who said that irony is the fundamental operating principle of the universe?" "I believe," I said, "that it was Henghis Hapthorn.

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

The limping of philosophy is its virtue. True irony is not an alibi; it is a task; and the very detachment of the philosopher assigns to him a certain kind of action among men.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

It's about this girl who was married three times and was still a virgin. Know how she managed that? First she married a midget, see, and he was too small. Next she married a preacher, and he was too religious. Then she married a small-town cop, and he couldn't find it.

But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally. In the hearing of the gods, who hear all, it is conversely unsage to make a simple and direct statement. So what is one to do? The dilema needs a whole volume to itself.

We were three women who walked different paths in life and yet all three of us washed up on the same shore. Destiny is such a motherfucker. God must be a real son of a bitch.

Irony was new to her and tasted oddly good, like a previously unavailable summer fruit.

Soon, she and the rest of them would be ironic much of the time, unable to answer an innocent question without giving their words a snide little adjustment. Fairly soon after that, the snideness would soften, the irony would be mixed in with seriousness, and the years would shorten and fly.

I am fluent in snark. Bethany only notices snark when snark grabs her off the sidewalk, throws her in the back of a sketchy van with tinted windows, drives to the middle of the Meadow-lands in the dead of night, and uses a heavy blunt instrument to smack her repeatedly about the head as it screams, "I'M SNARK. DO YOU FUCKING HEAR ME? I'M SNARKY SNARKY SNARK!" And even then she's like, "Ohhhh? Snark? Is that you?

This world has a secret rule: Those who have to die live, and those who have to live die!

Comedy is when you accidentally fall off a cliff and die. Tragedy is when I have a hangnail.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.