Quotes About Irony

In America, the least amusing people are its professional entertainers.

Nonetheless, as incomprehensible problems mount, as the concept of progress fades, as meaning itself becomes suspect, the Technopolist stands firm in believing that what the world needs is yet more information. It is like the joke about the man who complains that the food he is being served in a restaurant is inedible and also that the portions are too small

is an irony that I have confronted many times in being told that I must appear on television to promote a book that warns people against television.

As I listened to the inmates' schemes to reenter the world, I did not miss the irony that we were being released while the innocent remained behind. We were the scourge on society. We were the "lepers," And we were about to be set free.

The more attractive and athletic the character depicted on the T-shirt, the less attractive and athletic the fan wearing it

I become facetious when perplexed. Right now I am perplex'd in the extreme.

recited the dictum of Felix Pilkington, 'Life is a comedy, with sad bits.

Llore si le parece. Yo por mi parte me muero de risa.

llore si le parece yo x mi parte me muero de risa

Military Intelligence' is an oxymoron, just like 'Government Organisation' is. A bloody game with no rules.

Ur Mom is my favorite wife

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships. Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.

La técnica no cumple los viejos sueños del hombre, sino los remeda con sorna.

To avenge Nietzsche's attacks on his disciples, Christ ironically prepared to create the Nietzscheans.

We reactionaries will live in the future society just as uncomfortably as will the Marxists; but the Marxists will look upon it with the eyes of a dumbfounded father, while we will regard it with the irony of a stranger.

I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot: either their hands are so constructed, or else our noses are good for nothing else.

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

Wonderful, darling Oksana, allow me to kiss you!" the encouraged blacksmith said and pressed her to him with the intention of snatching a kiss; but Oksana withdrew her cheeks, which were a very short distance from the blacksmith's lips, and pushed him away. "What more do you want? He's got honey and asks for a spoon! Go away, your hands are harder than iron. And you smell of smoke. I suppose you've made me all sooty.

But human nature is inscrutable: he was depressed at the thought of the disapproval of the very people he despised, at whose vanity and general behavior he had laughed.

They christened the child, whereat he wept and made a grimace, as though he foresaw that he was to be a titular councillor. In

De que modo estranho e incompreensível o destino brinca connosco! Será que alguma vez alcançamos aquilo que almejamos? Será que conseguimos aquilo que, parece, as nossas forças foram expressamente preparadas? Tudo se passa ao contrário.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.