Quotes About Irony

Qué irónico que la gente descarte las matemáticas como la antítesis de la creatividad. Están desperdiciando una forma de arte más antigua que cualquier libro, más profunda que cualquier poema, y más abstracta que cualquier otra cosa.

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

Aw, now look at that, you're being sarcastic, aren't you?

Cuando el mal gusto alcanza tales extremos, sólo queda el recurso de la risa

Vous êtes content de vous ? - Oui. J'éclate de rire. - Vous riez ? - Oui. Je songe que, normalement, les assassins font couler le sang d'autrui, tandis que moi, sans verser une goutte du sang de ma victime, je l'ai tuée pour mettre un terme à son hémorragie, pour la restituer à son immortalité originelle et non sanglante. Un tel paradoxe me fait rire. - Vous avez un sens de l'humour étonnamment déplacé.

C'è gente abbastanza sfortunata da trovare l'amore della sua vita, lo scrittore della sua vita, il filosofo della sua vita, ecc. E ovvio che diventeranno dei rincoglioniti.

You know perfectly well that if ever you really want to, you can come back to me," he said without the slightest trace of irony and cynicism, and left.

It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

I can make a joke pointing out that David Cameron told off Sri Lanka for human rights abuses committed with weapons Britain sold it - like Ronald McDonald calling you a fat bastard.

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

The great thing about 'Weeds' is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.

I'm not a great flyer. It's ironic, since I'm in showbiz and have to fly at least twice a week. I try to sleep and blot it out.

One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.

Washington is nothing if not an orchard of absurdities, and poking fun at power brokers is neither sex blind nor for the faint of heart.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

My funny speech wasn't funny. That's not the first time a politician has done that.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

'America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.' It's one of those jokes that doesn't hit people right away, because it's so prevalent that we don't get it.

I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?