Quotes About Irony

a saint with the heart of a devil, or a fiend with the soul of a saint.

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

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

It is one of the ironies of love that it is easiest confidently to seduce those we are least attracted to.

De ironie van de liefde wil dat we het gemakkelijkst en met de meeste zelfverzekerdheid de mensen verleiden tot wie we ons het minst aangetrokken voelen, aangezien we bij een intens verlangen niet in staat zijn de daarvoor vereiste onverschilligheid op te brengen en bij een aantrekkelijk iemand worden geplaagd door een gevoel van minderwaardigheid ten opzichte van de perfectie die we de aanbedene toedichten.

La sua fede era autentica, ma così duttile e venata d'ironia che Dio era esposto alle sue critiche quanto l'arcivescovo di Canterbury (che in privato lui chiamava Patatone).

They toured the new hospital, the renovated and expanded McVeigh Home, and the (named without apparent irony) Bay View Home for the Blind and Helpless.

Something happened when you looked in the mirror together. You asked it, as always, a question, and you asked each other something too; and the space, shadowy but glossy, the further room in which you found yourself, as if on a stage, vibrated with ironies and sentimental admissions.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?

in life there were times when the entirely inappropriate was the only appropriate response. Perhaps

There's sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime, and at least all the trains run on time but they don't go anywhere.

If you don't see me in five minutes, then I've probably died a brave and heroic death.

Of course not. It's only funny when it happens to other people. I'd have thought that was obvious.

Brahmins were essentially transmitters and stewards of Vedic hymns and rituals, not its interpreters or owners. Over time, however, they used their exalted position to dominate society and claim entitlements. It was an irony of history that those who carried knowledge of how to expand the mind failed to expand their own minds, and chose the common path of domination instead.

Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention, a machine that would autocorrect his name to cabbage, every single time.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Demek ki yaÅŸam bir tür ÅŸakayd?: kibrinden, girdiÄŸi bir iddia yüzünden her ÅŸeyi yitirmiÅŸti.

It makes you think the best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much must perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.