Quotes About Irony

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

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i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected.

It would be ironic for an archaeologist to catch something nasty from the past, perhaps the ultimate in experimental archaeology!

There was a happy irony in the first cousin of the autocratic Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II (with whom George bore a striking resemblance) furthering British democracy.

The connoisseur's hushed, museum-trained gaze is not well-designed for these purposes. That gaze values subtlety, complexity, ambiguity, and irony. Its most characteristic grace note is self-congratulation at being the kind of person who likes this rare and beautiful thing, whatever it may be, laced always with contempt for those too crude, too uneducated, or too simple to be able do so.

There is much irony in the fact that Anglo-American Middle East policy, from Operation Ajax, the deposing of democratically elected, socialist, secularist Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq in Iran in 1953, to Operation Iraqi Freedom, the overthrow of secular nationalist dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, has served in fact, if not intention, to ensure the continuing hold of Islam over nearly all the countries of the region.

It takes a special, ironic kind of person to use their own impending death as an impetus to finally live.

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

Does she really need that many pairs of kneesocks? Aren't kneesocks just chastity belts for your shins?

Sometimes I think that we should send all of the Killer Mediums to Afghanistan because al-Qaeda wouldn't stand a chance.

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.

There was the blow-up sex doll in a deckchair on the front porch, with a cucumber in its mouth slot and a sign around its neck saying "I claim this house in the name of Satan".

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

Every ironist has in mind a pretentious reader, mirror of himself.

Ironic," Ricardo said. "That you must become a monster to keep from going mad.

The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it's more like a tired feeling, really.

It had been about as fun as a fun run, an oxymoron if she had ever heard one, with heavy emphasis on the moron part.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.