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Quotes About Irony

I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
~ Unknown
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!
~ Unknown
Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
È il destino che gentilmente abbassa il predellino della sua antiquata carrozza e mi tende la mano per aiutarmi a salire, ma a pensarci, e a pensarci seriamente, si arrivava a uno sciocco calembour: il destino mi tende il piede, mi fa lo sgambetto per atterrarmi, per mettermi al tappeto... A volte mi dicevo persino: forse hai pensato troppo in tutta la tua vita. Gli altri non pensano e vivono felici.
~ Nina Berberova
irony without humor is violence.
~ Noah Hawley
And irony without humor is violence.
~ Noah Hawley
Aside from the fact that she's a horrible human being, she's actually very nice." Rebecca
~ Unknown
Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.
~ Norman O. Brown
Humanity is a comic role.
~ Unknown
Not for the first time, Joyce lamented the lack of irony in conversations in Asia.
~ Unknown
Oysa bizim bütün güzelli?imiz, ya?ad?klar?m?zla dü?ündüklerimiz aras?ndaki ac?kl? çeli?kinin yans?malar?ndan ibaretti.
~ Unknown
Ars?z çiçekler yeti?tiriyorum.Tenekeler dü?mesin diye pencerenin iki kasas? aras?na ç?talar çakt?m.Daha çirkin oldu görünü?leri.Çiçeklerle birlikte her soluk al???m?zda havay? kirletiyoruz..
~ Unknown
Co?kun:Olsun.Hem oyunlar? ciddiye alm?yor muyuz?
~ Unknown
...The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
~ Ogden Nash
Cuckoos lead Bohemian lives, They fail as husbands and as wives, Therefore they cynically disparage Everybody else's marriage - Ogden Nash, The Cucko
~ Ogden Nash
How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?
~ Okakura Kakuz?
Cómo se puede tomar al mundo en serio, siendo el mundo tan ridículo?
~ Okakura Kakuzo
May you get what you wish for.
~ Unknown
Frequently, ironic situations resulted. One blocova, formerly maid-of-all-work, selected her erstwhile mistress as her personal servant. The latter brushed the shoes and mended the tatters of her ex-maid.
~ Unknown
That's what I dislike most of all in people – cold irony. It's a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can't experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others
~ Olga Tokarczuk
That's what I dislike most of all in people—cold irony. It's a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
impotence. At the same time the ironists always have a world outlook that they proclaim triumphantly, though if one starts badgering and questioning them about the details, it turns out to consist of nothing but trivia and banalities.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Now then, the funeral party. In case you all aint noticed, the first three letters of the word funeral spells fun.
~ Olive Ann Burns
Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
~ Olive Schreiner