Quotes About Irony

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

In the past, the movies I've made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

Quiero è un verbo sorprendente, che vuol dire tutto. È volere , desiderare , amare , chiedere ed è prediligere . Di volta in volta, secondo il tono che gli vien dato, esprime la più imperativa delle passioni o il più lieve dei capricci. È un ordine o una preghiera, una dichiarazione o un assenso. Talora, non è che ironia.

I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who didn't have a good word to say for magistrates; and there was a landlord who let furnished rooms by the hour and spoke highly of both priests and magistrates, because both were his best clients.

A Spartan, seeing a man taking up a collection for the gods, said that he did not think much of gods who were poorer than himself.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

The biggest fools are those who are paid to be wise.

Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go home and have a heart attack.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Hope is forgivable when you're young, isn't it? With no suspicion of irony, without a soupçon of cynicism, hope lures with its siren song.

I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don't need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.

My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.