Quotes About Irony

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Oddly enough, living only for one's emotions, like a flag obedient to the breeze, demands a way of life that makes one balk at the natural course of events, for this implies being altogether subservient to nature. The life of the emotions detests all constraints, whatever their origin, and thus, ironically enough, is apt eventually to fetter its own instinctive sense of freedom.

In the US, the technical term for a limited liability company is a 'corporation', which is ironic, because the term derives from 'corpus' ('body' in Latin) – the one thing these corporations lack.

How do you accept that tragic irony is a cruelty reserved not merely for Shakespearean plot twists? How do you admit to your son that monsters exist outside of fairy tales? How do you explain to a child something you can't understand yourself?

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

There is bad in good and there is no good in bad."

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle

How ironic it is that leftist BDS supporters have adopted the tactics of right-wing McCarthyites.

In one of those bitter ironies, at the end of his life Marr recanted his antisemitic accusations and, in a final essay entitled "Testament of an Antisemite," acknowledged that the faults he attributed to the Jews were, in fact, the result of the Industrial Revolution and the political debates of the times.2 His remorse notwithstanding, the damage had already been done.)

Resulta trágicamente irónico que el mismo cerebro que es capaz de conquistar el miedo pueda también someternos a los miedos que atormentan nuestras vidas.

Humans are in the ironic position of knowing for certain that we have a mind, while at the same time finding that our mind can't explain itself.

Good is not always good.

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.

America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.

Some people have the last laugh because they always get the joke last, and they still don't realize that the joke is on them. They just laugh last and the longest.

Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.

It's really not as bad as it sounds. I was attacked by a shark once, back when I was alive. Well, not so much a shark as a rather large fish. And not so much attacked as looked at menacingly. But it had murder in its eyes, that fish. I knew, in that instant, if our roles had been reversed and the fish had been holding the fishing pole and I had been the one to be caught, it wouldn't hesitate a moment before eating me. So I cooked it and ate before it had a chance to turn the tables.

He stepped on it. Squished it. Squashed it. Killed it. Cut it down in its prime. It kicked the bucket, turned up its toes, shuffled off this mortal coil. It was... an ex-rabbit." "He's a dangerous man, your father." "The baby better learn to dodge.

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.