Quotes About Irony

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense

Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.

At little more than kin and less than kind.

Useful Figure The litotes ("didn't appreciate") understates a point ironically. It has fallen out of favor in our hyperbolic times, but makes for a more sophisticated kind of speech.

Here's something to think about How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'

How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you have been betrayed.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

Un omagiu ironic adus moravurilor u?oare ale timpului.

Tutto ciò che è nel tempo passerà con il tempo e nulla di ciò che appartiene a questo mondo transitorio e fragile merita più di un rispetto un po' distaccato e di un assenso ironico. Si può benissimo morire per la propria patria, per le proprie idee, per quelli che si amano. Non c'è niente di più onorevole. Ma soltanto ciò che è eterno merita un affetto senza riserve.

I fell in love with Caligula and now I'm married to Calvin.

You never knew when condoms might come in handy . . . you could blow them up like balloons and tie messages to them, or fill them with water, or roll them on to your fingers and use them as fingerstalls. He didn't really foresee any possibility of their being put to the purpose for which they were intended.

Ce qui la marqua le plus intensément fut le plaisir un peu ironique que l'on éprouve lorsqu'une prévision se vérifie, qu'un calcul tombe juste, qu'une intuition se trouve confirmée par les faits.

Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

He mispronounces the word hombres in the style of the US president who, attempting to call migrants bad men, inadvertently referred to them as bad hunger instead. It's a joke now, full of irony. Bad hunger. El comandante toes the line.

You know me. I've got a warped sense of humor at the worst times.