Quotes About Irony

Lo que más admiro en los demás es la ironía, la capacidad de verse de lejos y no tomarse en serio. Después, el valor y la humildad, siempre que no sea ostentosa.

Tragedy is an unfinished comedy.

In comparison with all this, our little stories of achievement seem pitiful; Too well we know what bitterness of failure, loss, disillusionment, and ironic unfulfillment galls the blood of even the envied of the world!

CAMPBELL: You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

There is no tragedy so utter that a Belgian, with the best will in the world, can't make worse.

The definition of wit is a joke that doesn't make you laugh.

The only type of humor that is excused lower classness is satire, and satire is the chamber music of comedy - a joke that many people profess to enjoy, but few actually get.

It is a miserable irony that the potato came from America and sent these people back to America as desperate economic refugees.

even Herodotos suspected that he was being made fun of.

Argel Tal often said that Fate had a vicious sense of humour. Khârn never doubted it for a second.

They told me that "with age comes wisdom", but all I got was hemorrhoids." - Lecture tour for "Steal This Urine Test

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

In this upside down world, snarls are smiles, ugly is beautiful, and the crippled outwork the able bodied, but tears are the same.

I was forced to go to a positive-thinking seminar. I couldn't stand it. So I went outside to the parking lot and let half the air out of everybody's tires. As they came out I said, "So, are your tires half-full, or half-empty?"

The French psychoanalyst Lacan suggested that the Christian injunction 'love thy neighbour as thyself' must be ironic because people hate themselves.)

Reality, in truth is … what is the word? Reality is ironic .

It is a deep irony that the era in which America is commonly thought of as leading the world in a market revolution saw its housing market become dependent on a government-sponsored mortgage machine descended from the New Deal.

It is one of the many paradoxes of life he has come to accept, that learning the truth often requires acts of deception.

A bullet in the head will fix an incipient asthma attack every time.

My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.

I would say I've actually done a lot more comedy than I've done drama. It's weird the way that worked out, because when I came out of theater school I took myself way too seriously, so it's kind of ironic that I ended up sort of going down the comedy path.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.