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Quotes About Irony

It's a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody's expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone's expense.
~ Richard Kalvar
Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
~ Barbet Schroeder
Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?
~ Steven Wright
Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?
~ Steven Wright
He kills her in her own humor.
~ William Shakespeare
If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.
~ Christine Feehan
People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even
~ Art Buchwald
Doctor says to a man, "You're pregnant!" The man says, "How does a man get pregnant?" The doctor says, "The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner...."
~ Henny Youngman
My only thrill is self inflicted hickies.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I saw a vegetarian wearing a furry coat. so I looked closer. it was made of grass.
~ Steven Wright
If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.
~ D.J. MacHale, The Blood
You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.
~ Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
The Doctor says, "You'll live to be 60!" "I AM 60!" "See, what did I tell you?"
~ Henny Youngman
Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy
~ Neil Young
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?
~ Ilona Andrews, On the Edge
Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
I washed mud off of mud.
~ Steven Wright
Four years ago... no, it was yesterday.
~ Steven Wright
Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.
~ Steve Martin
So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster".
~ Tommy Cooper
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
~ Dan Simmons