Quotes About Irony

quizás la verdadera naturaleza del arte fuese revelar mundos soñados, mundos imposibles, y que eso era algo a lo que yo nunca me había aproximado, algo de lo que jamás me había sentido capaz; comprendí también que la ironía, lo cómico, el humor debían morir, porque el mundo futuro era el mundo de la felicidad, y allí ya no habría sitio para ellos.

Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn't matter how brave you are, or how reserved, or how much you've developed a sense of humour, you still end up with your heart broken. That's when you stop laughing.

Drie pijlen om een volwassenen everzwijn mee neer te schieten. Dat was bijna hetzelfde als een eland met een bosje bloemen doodmeppen.

I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

Between jest and earnest.

The pot calls the kettle black.

Thank you for nothing.

One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into enjoyment.

So how ironic is that? I would help save a child from abortion and communism by writing a book criticizing feminists for their love of abortion and communism.

My parents sent my brother through law school. He graduated. Now he's suing them for wasting seven years of his life.

So Smithers is the first man in history to go from black and straight to white and gay. The second was Michael Jackson.

God always listens to my prayers, then does the exact opposite.

The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station was graphic evidence, not only of how obsolete our technology was, but also of the failure of the old system. At the same time, and such is the irony of history, it severely affected our reforms by literally knocking the country off its tracks.

I'd thought I'd felt like shit that day, but really I'd barely even entered the intestine.

Like parodies of themselves, theological notions are reflected in the triviality of our lives.

The day you took the test I would have told you this: that you had no time to listen to questions hunting out the answers in your files is surely the kind of irony that poems are made of

Future hipsters will love me ironically.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

Life is pure farce from beginning to end, with a little black comedy thrown in for shade. If it was anything else, mankind would have stuck his collective head in the gas oyen years ago. No one could tolerate seventy years of tragedy. When I die - probably of cancer - Jane has prornised to put on my tombstone: "Here lies Anne Cattrell who laughed her way through it. The joke was on her but at least she knew it." (The Ice House)

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

But how a man like you, who looks so wise And wears a moustache of such splendid size, Can be so foolish as to...

The world's perverse, but it could be worse.

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.