Quotes About Irony

There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.

Life was so full of irony that he found himself asking if it was nothing more than a trick played on humanity by a Grand Illusionist with a black sense of humour.

Di solito vogliono che tu tenga la bocca chiusa, a volte pretendono che gridi, e si aspettano che tu sappia la differenza. Era questo che trovava buffo.

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

But it's obvious since the beginning that wars make no sense. You kill people to tell them you want to stop killing them.

There's a bunch od huge churchs clustered together, trying to blend in with all the family-themed restaurants, because salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess.

I won the only duel I ever lost.

Halfpenny a head. That's right. Anyone without a head gets in free.

Quizá todo esto les parezca macabro, pero así es la vida: los saqueadores acaban siendo saqueados y el tiempo nos hace mercenarios a todos.

he was often heard to say, 'I won the only duel I ever lost.

Así es la vida. Los saqueadores acaban siendo saqueados, y el tiempo nos hace mercenarios a todos.

The necrophiliacs were homophobic and sexist to boot. You'd think pervs would be more tolerant of others. Go figure.

I don't know nothing about looking a gift horse in the mouth or anywhere else. I mean, who gives a horse as a gift anyhow? Unless it's just the head of course.

Isn't that the kettle calling the pot collect?" English

Life's funny that way, kind of like a dad who thinks it's hilarious to tie his kid up in a dark closet and leave him there for the weekend. Yeah,

Life sucks. This is news why?

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

Quand on me demande pourquoi je fume, je réponds que c'est parce que j'aime tousser.

A good sense of humor, then, a taste for the ironies of life, and an appreciation of the absurd.

Pangloss is an idiot optimist, and I'm an intelligent pessimist, meaning a pessimist who has occasional flashes of optimism. Nearly everything happens for the worst, but not always, you see, nothing is ever always, but I'm always expecting the worst, and when the worst doesn't happen, I get so excited I begin to sound like an optimist.

I was the best thing that could have happened to him, it was the worst thing that could have happened to him.

This whole city's a Freudian slip of the tongue, a concrete hard-on for America's deeds and misdeeds. Slavery? Manifest Destiny? Laverne & Shirley? Standing by idly while Germany tried to kill every Jew in Europe? Why some of my best friends are the Museum of African Art, the Holocaust Museum, the Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts. And furthermore, I'll have you know, my sister's daughter is married to an orangutan.

Sometimes I wish Darth Vader had been my father. I'd have been better off. I wouldn't have a right hand, but I definitely wouldn't have the burden of being black and constantly having to decide when and if I gave a shit about it. Plus, I'm left-handed.

One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function.