Quotes About Irony

Every psychiatrist hated the irony that the best-paying specialty was cosmetic surgery, as if you could fix your psyche by changing your face.

I never know whether to thank Will Smith or hit him.

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

God save me from another such victory.

Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.

Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

That bitch fate has a cruel sense of humor.

And don't call them terrorists: that's for the settlers. Call them rebels, or revolutionaries. (Looking off with his own sad irony) Or fools. But never terrorists.

Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.

Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.

has sometimes occurred to me that God only bestows extreme beauty upon those to whom He wishes to bring misfortune.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake." (p. 3) It immediately sets a mood of hardship and confusion and starts right in with the irony that permeates the novel.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

Even the book I'm reading to my class," said Miss Zarves. "The author makes fun of teachers!

And you're a maggot-infested string bean," muttered Louis. "What?" asked Mr. K. "I said, you're a magnificent human being.

Poor man, in the end, he became so decorative that he died!

No. This vas a terrible irony. On ze very next day, Spanish authorities reopened ze border and allowed his friends to leave. One week later, they boarded a ship to America. Benyameen took his pills too soon. If he only could hef waited .

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.

Aren't people absurd! They never use the freedoms they do have but demand those they don't have; they have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.

Boredom is the only continuity the ironist has.