Quotes About Irony

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

What I brought to Dr. Schachtel was not a condition or a situation but a poetics. I wanted to discuss my life with him not as a patient talking to an analyst but as if we were two literary critics discussing a novel. Of course, that's what all patients want, but the irony was that with me it might have worked. It might have been the shortest, or the only, way through my defenses, because I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Le spun oamenilor c? nu m? uit la programe sportive. Nu-mi plac. Cum adic?? Adic?, nu-mi place sportul. Ei râd. Adic? nu-mi place niciun sport în afar? de tenis? Nu, tenisul îl ur?sc mai mult decât pe toate celelalte. Da, da, sigur c? e o glum?. Nu ai cum s? ur??ti tenisul. Ba da.

Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible.

Another fugitive, writing in the 1820s compared the sight of the whipped slave's black to that of 'a field lately ploughed' and proposed with scalding irony that 'if it were not for the stripes on my back' he would bequent his own skin to the government to be used as parchment wrapping for tht 'charter of American liberty' the US Constitution.

It wasn't like I ever said, 'I want to be an actor.' I was in the right place at the right time. I went to a local drama group because I found football on the weekends too cold - which is highly ironic because I've had some of the coldest experiences of my life filming 'Game of Thrones.'

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.

It's an irony that with the physical decline of age comes more mental wellbeing. It's life's cruel trick. You've settled down as a person, you feel happier with who you are, and then you get a massive swollen prostate and have to go for a test every two weeks. It's life's way of saying the struggle isn't over.

Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for.

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are things that are very funny about that.

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

'Veep' is a great satire of democracy.

I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.