Quotes About Irony

Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.

It's ironic, really, because I've spent the bulk of my career making my living in a very commercial realm: network television. And yet, my sensibilities don't necessarily line up with how I pay my rent.

I love British television. I love the irony, I love the authenticity and I love the roles I get put up for.

I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

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he inwardly acknowledged the irony that, had Ilsa not been so keen to act as midwife to a romantic relationship between himself and Robin, he might now have been sitting in Nick and Ilsa's flat in Octavia Road, enjoying a laugh with two of his old friends and indeed with Robin herself, whose company had never yet palled on him, through the many long hours they had worked together.

He had found humor in darker places.

The human race puzzles me, with striving for freedom, and then basically just giving it away.

Peter, who broke his enemies on the rack and hanged them in Red Square, who had his son tortured to death, is Peter the Great. But Nicholas, whose hand was lighter than that of any tsar before him, is "Bloody Nicholas". In human terms, this is irony rich and dramatic, the more so because Nicholas knew what he was called.

It is one of the supreme ironies of history that the blessed birth of an only son should have proved the mortal blow. Even as the saluting cannons boomed and the flags waved, Fate had prepared a terrible story. Along with the lost battles and sunken ships, the bombs, the revolutionaries and their plots, the strikes and revolts, Imperial Russia was toppled by a tiny defect in the body of a little boy.

Except for shooting folks in the face and cutting off ears, the lanky killer had impeccable manners.

How many pessimists end up desiring the things they fear, in order to prove they are right?

comic cynicism

What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!

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Ironic. The less you cared about receiving the stuff most of us care about at work, the more you received it

A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

I'm not a hypochondriac, but my gynaecologist firmly believes I am.

And the man clad in black and silver with a silver rose upon him? He would like to think that he has learned something of trust, that he has washed his eyes in some clear spring, that he has polished an ideal or two. Never Mind. He may still be only a smart-mouthed meddler, skilled mainly in the minor art of survival, blind as ever the dungeons knew him to the finer shades of irony. Never mind, let it go, let it be. I may never be pleased with him.