Quotes About Irony

Old age is life's parody.

The way my luck is at the moment," said Polly, "I probably will get a tiny bit of money back, and as I leave the bank after picking it up, a bolt of lightning will come out of the sky and set it on fire. Then a piano will fall on my head and knock me down a manhole.

Hye Evans? That fat old fool," said Lilian. "That man couldn't diagnose a nail sticking out of your leg if you turned up with a nail sticking out of your leg, saying 'Doctor, I just accidentally hammered a nail into my leg.

I always remember someone saying how ironic it is that Christmas is celebrated in the home but we're celebrating the birth of a homeless child.

I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

It was a total catch-22, like a contradiction in terms.

Dolab?m? bo?altmam çok zaman?m? ald?. Peter'?n yazd???, saklad???m baz? notlar? buldum ve kupür albümüme koyabilmek için dikkatlice çantama att?m. Eski bir gofret. Tozlu, siyah saç tokalar?; ki bu oldukça ironikti çünkü ihtiyac?n?z oldu?unda onlar? asla bulamazd?n?z.

Laugh hard at the absurdly evil.

Two Jokes 1. A man is standing on the bank of a river when it suddenly begins to flood. His wife and his mistress are both being swept away. Who should he save? His wife. (Because his mistress will always understand.) 2. A man is standing on the bank of a river when it suddenly begins to flood. His wife and his mistress are both being swept away. Who should he save? His mistress. (Because his wife will never understand.)

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

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.

Er musste an eine Zeichnung von Daumier denken, die Der Fortschritt hieß. Daumier hatte auf dem Blatt Schnecken dargestellt, die hintereinander herkrochen, das war das Tempo der menschlichen Entwicklung. Aber die Schnecken krochen im Kreis! Und das war das Schlimmste.

Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but the stupid or malignant irony of a crude age of technological progress and cultural regression.

Sonderbar, dachte Ravic, daß Blutsauger so gern moralisch werden. Dieser alte Gauner mit der Rosette der Ehrenlegion im Knopfloch wirft mir vor, daß ich ihn ausnütze, anstatt sich zu schämen. Und er glaubt es sogar noch.

Er war nicht töricht genug, nicht an Zufälle zu glauben. Keine Zufälle gab es nur in guter Literatur – das Leben war täglich voll der albernsten.

In part, he knew, this happiness was fostered by German law, which forbade cruelty to animals and punished violators with prison, and here Dodd found deepest irony. "At a time when hundreds of men have been put to death without trial or any sort of evidence of guilt, and when the population literally trembles with fear, animals have rights guaranteed them which men and women cannot think of expecting." He added, "One might easily wish he were a horse!

If there were a Pulitzer for bleak irony, however, it would go to the News for its Saturday-morning report on one of the most important local stories of the year—the Galveston count of the 1900 U.S. census, which the newspaper had first announced on Friday. The news was excellent: Over the last decade of the nineteenth century, the city's population had increased by 29.93 percent, the highest growth rate of any southern city counted so far.

In part, he knew, this happiness was fostered by German law, which forbade cruelty to animals and punished violators with prison, and here Dodd found deepest irony. "At a time when hundreds of men have been put to death without trial or any sort of evidence of guilt, and when the population literally trembles with fear, animals have rights guaranteed them which men and women cannot think of expecting.

In England, they're filled with curiosity and keep asking: 'Why doesn't he come?' " Hitler said, infusing every gesture with irony. "Be calm. Be calm. He's coming! He's coming!" The laughter from the audience verged on the maniacal.

Her gayety seemed like jewels on a skull

Deploying flattery leavened with irony, he began:

I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.