Quotes About Irony

A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.

Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

The primary fantasy of connection leads to a posture of pseudo-independence in the developing child—"I don't need anyone, I can take care of myself"—yet the irony is that the more the person relies on fantasy, the more helpless he or she becomes in the real world and the more he or she demands to be taken care of.

I hope you're appreciating the rich irony here: hospitals and doctors are using the Medicare subsidy (Medicare is the federal agency that doles out the HITECH dollars) to buy computer systems that allow them to bill Medicare more effectively.

In the new view, human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their constitutional ignorance of the misuse. The title of this book is not wholly without irony.

Here's an embarrassing irony: nothing so arouses tribalistic animosities in me as people who support policies that, in my view, tend to arouse tribalistic animosities.

Jane Austen novel.

Así que todo nos traiciona, incluida la curiosidad y la honestidad y lo que bien amamos. Sí, dijo la voz, pero consuélate, en el fondo es divertido.

This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature.

Everything that begins as comedy ends as a comic monologue, but we aren't laughing anymore.

Everything that begins as comedy ends as tragicomedy.

At least now I know what I only intuited before: there's a hired killer after every publisher. This killer may be distinguished, he may be illiterate, but he's in the pay of the darkest interests. And sometimes-oh, the cosmic irony-those interests, so vain and foolish, are our own.

Así que todo nos traiciona, incluida la curiosidad y la honestidad y lo que bien amamos. Si, dijo la voz, pero consuélate, en el fondo es divertido.

El humor no debe ser risa. Sí, sonrisa. Y, de ser posible, llanto amargo.

It would be ironic,' I panted to Burrich and Dutiful, 'if after all these years of longing to die, he finally perished in an attempt to live.' Burrich snorted. 'We all perish in our last attempt to live.

I hate irony. It is a manacle that ties our dreams to our fears.

Of all the cruel jests fate had recently played on me, I decided that awakening was the cruelest.

It is irony, is it not, that you live so short a time, and waste so much of it being stupid?

De todas las bromas crueles que me había gastado recientemente el destino, decidí que despertar era la más cruel de todas.

The irony is that while he has defined himself as a multi-faceted being, he is the impatient entity ceaselessly operating in terms of his sexuality: fearing it, seeking it, demanding it, proving it, forcing & enforcing it. His is an ejaculatory politics. Just as long ago he forgot what "self" truly could be, so he forgot what "power" really is.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

Isn't he cute? That he thinks he has a sense of humour?

his loving wife, Catherine, who won the annual Kill a Friend, Maim a Buddy Sweepstakes at LisaGardner.com.