Quotes About Irony

The man recover'd of the bite,The dog it was that died.

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Reality rebounds, and things turn out the opposite of what they seem and what people expect. Strength becomes weakness; love becomes pornography; pleasure becomes boredom; and so on.

To fall for", "to be fallen for"- I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.

Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Murphy was an optimist.

What? A character almost as awful as Phaedre, and quite as desolate as Antigone, represented by a graceful coquette in point lace and pearls, who will take poison as sweetly as if it were a cup of coffee, and will die with elaborate care not to tumble her train? Preposterous!

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

It could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.

I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

Trató de encender el cigarrillo que ya había encendido. Los tuertos hacen cosas así, se dijo buscando una imposible disculpa.

They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.

But a broken heart—God knows, I have found—doesn't actually kill you. And irony and disinterest are false protections, ones that won't serve us, or the earth, in the end.

birthday celebration made up of the Jewish child we are hiding, my husband's aunt who is sheltering us, and the Nazi she is protecting us from, who happens to be my lover. The irony is really too much.

for the weak and the ineffectual, who cannot rise to the dignity and nobility of tragedy, or the luxury of irony, for whom even ordinary acts of will are impossible, melodrama is a substitute. People deprived of the capacity to change their fate can only repetitively lament this fact, and since they belong to the vast majority of the world's population, melodrama should be taken seriously for its world-historical impact.

Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

That was uncomfortable.Am I dead? No such luck

Now it's like we on a highway to hell." He added, "At least we have Bill Cosby.