Quotes About Irony

Today Mitt Romney is 68 years old. It's kind of sad, a 68-year-old guy with no job, no future - wait a minute, that's me.

The funniest people are the saddest ones

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

If Einstein was so smart how come people only call you 'Einstein' when you do something really stupid ?

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

A joke is a witticism or play on words that's meant to be funny. I say 'meant to be' because most jokes aren't funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

"I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things." "I like anyone killing things, especially me." he said with a smile.

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people to cry and smile almost at the same moment.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

I am ashamed of my century for being so entertaining but I have to smile.

In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?

Too bad the smile was on the face of the wrong man.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

The paperless society is about as plausible as the paperless bathroom.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

Maybe I had found true love. Not that true love is a bitter, rotten dead monkey in a box. But then again, maybe.

He said maybe irony is the lens through which we see the picture in reverse