Quotes About Irony

I grew up in poverty, so I thought, 'I want to be a billionaire one day. I'll go and work for Donald Trump. I'll go try to be on 'The Apprentice' and be successful.' But 15 years later, I never would imagine that he, as the president of the United States, would call me a low life.

One day I'll bring a biography of my life out and that will be the biggest joke I'll ever tell.

'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny.

Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.

That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?

Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.

For most people, my suffering is enjoyable. I suffer in a funny way.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

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

I think names and suits are funny. Normal names in insane situations and dumb suits are funny.

America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.

Suchen Sie die Tiefe der Dinge: dort steigt Ironie nie hinab.

Isn't it ironic that when Islam is in a position of power, Islamic beliefs are forced on everyone, and that when atheism has the upper hand, atheistic beliefs are enforced on everyone? Only in Christianity is the privilege given both to believe and to disbelieve without any enforcement.

We are at a time when postmodernism defies certainty, truth, and meaning; when spiritualism dabbles in quantum theory; and when randomness has become the order of the day. Isn't it ironic that at the same time, the world is on the edge of financial bankruptcy because we have conducted our financial affairs in a random fashion, as if there are no absolutes?

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

For God's sake, what are you doing?" shouted Garrett, rattling about. "I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite.

DopuÅ¡tím se malé ironie. A není sluÅ¡né nÄ›koho pÃ…â"¢eruÅ¡ovat, zrovna když se dopouÅ¡tí malé ironie. No tak!

Christ, you could massacre half a Hindu village and still look like Peter Rabbit. What are you stuffed with?" "Chocolate bars. And I keep six kinds of ice-cream in my icebox, when I can afford it.

Of course, government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind;

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

Little by little, or maybe all at once, everything comes to mean its opposite; unreason argues itself into reason, and vice versa, and we cannot see the seams.