Quotes About Irony

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

[T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

The more power you have, the less you can truly say. That's the irony.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

When the gods are angry with a man they give him what he asks for.

Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.

I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak'd meatsDid coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.Would I had met my dearest foe in heavenEre I had ever seen that day.

There live not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old.

For 'tis the sport to have the enginerHoist with his own petar.

The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief.

I wish you joy of the worm.

That's the humor of it.

A little more than kin, and less than kind.

Very tragical mirth.

I shall laugh myself to death.

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard...

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?