Quotes About Irony

Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.

Describing yourself as edgy is one of the least edgy things a person can do.

I bought my wife a beautiful diamond ring and I even had it engraved - with the price.

I think I was trying to choose a name for him, and my flatmate was like, 'Oh, you should call him Diana.' I was like, 'Yeah. Very funny.' I think someone then said 'Diana Spencer,' and I'd always wanted to call my dog quite like an old person name, like Janet or something like that. 'Spencer' weirdly fit that bill.

Funny and sad are two sides of the same coin. I think that most comedians are able to tap into deep subject matter.

Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

I'm never gonna get it, but I always wanted a tattoo that says: 'This is my tattoo.'

I'm not scared of snakes, spiders, flying... nothing scares me apart from needles. I just hate them. Which is quite funny because I've had four knee operations, and I've got tattoos, so I've seen a few needles in my time.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

inconsequential M-3 Stuart caused one American general to muse that "the only way to hurt a Kraut with a 37mm is to catch him and give him an enema with it" the half-track mounted with a 75mm gun was already known as a "Purple Heart box." American tanks were so flammable they were dubbed Ronsons, after a popular cigarette lighter advertised with the slogan "They light every time.

Some irony. The girl who couldn't face her own bullshit . . . suddenly forcing everyone else to.

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.

How did you die?" "We er....drowned in a bathtub." "All three of you?" "It was a big bathtub.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.

Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.

Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.

They've put warning labels on liquor. "Caution: Alcohol can be dangerous to pregnant women." Did you read that? That's ironic. If it weren't for alcohol, most women would never be that way.

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.