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Quotes About Irony

Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's the end you need to worry about.
~ László Krasznahorkai
Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.
~ George Carlin
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
~ Luis Bunuel
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
~ Kingsley Amis
God save us from people who mean well.
~ Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.
~ Ludwig Bemelmans
God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature. Very funny religion!
~ D.T. Suzuki
I believe if I Piss God off one more time. I'll be eligible to win a free Bible
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
Coincidentally, the words RELIGION and BULLSHIT both have eight letters.
~ Daya Kudari
I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.
~ Groucho Marx
The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets 'Spider-Man.' Are you kidding me? You cannot win.
~ Manohla Dargis
When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.
~ Charles Baxter
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
~ Robert Greene
Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.
~ Sherman Alexie
I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."
~ David C. Coates
Shakespeare watched Henry V not indeed as he watched the greater souls in the visionary procession, but cheerfully, as one watches some handsome spirited horse, and he spoke his tale, as he spoke all tales, with tragic irony.
~ yeats william butler ii
But the system for all its cruelty and deceitfulness, turned out to be stupid. It had taught its future gravedigger how to wield a shovel.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I don't mean to be funny.
~ Yogi Berra
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
~ Yogi Berra
Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
~ Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra said "If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
~ Yogi Berra