Quotes About Irony

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.

The wisest of the wicked schemes are actually foolish.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

And he began to see his world as an amusing place where ridiculous things happened and where a man or woman could obey all the rules and avoid all the perils but still fall into some absurd situation at which their neighbors and the spirits themselves had to laugh and not furtively either but with great guffaws. The world was tragic, and fine men and strong animals died arbitrarily, but it was also so preposterous that sometimes the crests of mountains seemed to bend together in laughter.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.

She would have laughed if she haven't been at the point of crying.

That horrible Benito Hoover! And yet the man had meant well enough. Which only made it, in a way, much worse. Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

he was succeeded by his grandson, who was an ass ? but made up for it by being shortlived.

It is a well-known fact that kings and clowns frequently call each other cousin.

Aunque su padre había imaginado para él un brillante porvenir en el ejército. Hervé Joncour había acabado ganándose la vida con una insólita ocupación, tan amable que, por singular ironía, traslucía un vago aire femenino. Para vivir, Hervé Joncour compraba y vendía gusanos de seda.

But don't get me wrong...driving a truck doesn't make me a redneck. I don't have a gun rack in it. I have a wine rack.

But now to die would be, indeed, to give way to the sarcasm of destiny.

Bim allowed herself to smile as the thought occurred to her that perhaps the reason why Signe had two boyfriends was that if you put them together, with their obvious defects, you would end up with one, complete boyfriend.

They might have pictures of skulls on the backs of their leather jackets, but in their case these were really pictures of their last X-ray rather than threats.

An ironic, snarky, or perky tone can be used to avoid true intimacy with readers. Literary writing isn't necessarily intimate, either. A life "closely observed" doesn't mean we'll care about it.

The irony of the empty soul is that while he is perpetually dissatisfied in so many areas, he is so easily satisfied in regard to the pursuit of God.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number.

I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage'...