Quotes About Irony

There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself. Man was his own grimmest joke on himself. The very bedrock of humor was— "Man is the animal who laughs," Jubal answered. Mike considered this. "Then

Ironia suprem? a vie?ii este c? nimeni nu scap? de ea cu via??

Whether we like it or not, many of our pop artists today play post-modernist games with their audiences.

When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.

Go jogging? And get hit by a meteor?

Comedy and horror are opposite sides of the same coin.

A lion may die of an ass's kick.

The United States fought against the prospect of a Vietnam unified by the communist North. But once that unification became fact, the new and enlarged Vietnamese state became a much greater threat to communist China than to the United States. Such can be the ironies of history. Champa

It is the irony of understanding that the more you know the less you comprehend.

curiosity, a trait they'd see as inherently human (the irony there is that I've witnessed curiosity in many animals and a dull lifeless lack of it in many humans).

She had just killed a man and Dan wanted to kiss her, and in those two facts, ironically, lay the difference that would probably always remain between them.

But the most impressive thing about your story is that it has irony.

A jeep honked and Tariq whistled back, beaming and waving cheerfully. Lovely guns! he yelled. Fabulous jeeps! Fabulous army! Too bad you're losing to a bunch of peasants firing slingshots!

I asked, looking at the jukebox, now totally out of place, like a British police call box on the deck of the Titanic.

Only a stupid person would say that. Well, and yet I've just said it. Yes.

It's always the same story. Naturally one doesn't get the woman one should have had; but if by some damned freak of reason and justice it ever does happen, then of course she dies immediately after.

Hey, you've still got your endangered hymen. Which means you'll make it to closing credits - I'm s.o.l.

Why don't you just buy me a minivan, zip me into mom jeans, and shoot me in the face - Melanthe the potential Queen of Persuasions:

Sabine gave a Scoff. I could be virtuous, if I wanted to be. In an incredulous tone, he said, You don't know the meaning of virtue! Of course I do - it means your thong must be white.

Or she could command him to repeatedly stab himself in the dick. Then she'd run away as fast as she could manage—seeing as she would be laughing really hard.

The virgin was seducing the seductress!

Despite everything, I felt my lips twitch. If he weren't a homicidal god-wannabe, and I didn't have a murderous red witch inside me, we might've been friends. When his laughter died down, he said, "Back in the day, we would've made a great reality TV show. The Sol and Empress Show." "The

You have no tongue yet you won't shut up

Their mastery of technology was their greatest strength. But their utter reliance on it was, ironically, their greatest weakness.