Quotes About Irony

As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself.

If Hegel had written the whole of his logic and then said, in the preface or some other place, that it was merely an experiment in thought in which he had even begged the question in many places, then he would certainly have been the greatest thinker who had ever lived. As it is, he is merely comic.

From earliest childhood, an arrow of grief has been embedded in my heart. As long as it remains there, I am ironic — if it is drawn out, I will die.

Much is said in our age about irony and humor, especially by people who have never been capable of engaging in the practice of these arts, but who nevertheless know how to explain everything.

And isn't it true here too that those whom God blesses he damns in the same breath?

But as it befell thee (according to what thou sayest in thy Defense, as ironically enough thou hast called the crudest satire upon any generation), that thou didst bring down upon thee many enemies by making it evident that they were ignorant; and as they imputed to thee the inference that thou thyself must be what thou wert able to show the others were not, they therefore out of envy conceived a grudge against thee; so it has also befallen me.

AÅŸa cum filozofia începe cu îndoiala, o via?? care s? poat? fi numit? uman? începe cu ironia.

Naisissa tapaa usein huumoria, mutta ei koskaan ironiaa. Puhdas naisellinen luonto pitää ironiaa jonkinlaisena julmuutena.

Umorul are un scepticism mult mai profund decât ironia, fiindc? în sfera lui accentul cade asupra p?catului, nu asupra finitudinii. Nu-ÅŸi g?seÅŸte liniÅŸtea doar f?cându-l pe om s? fie om, ci f?cându-l pe om s? fie Dumnezeu-om.

I told you so',was Abdullah Noman's favourite song,because he was cursed with the curse of knowing too much and the double curse of being unable to avoid pointing this out even though it made Firdus Begum threaten to hit him on the head with a stone.

I also heard from readers whose parents had told the truth about Santa simply because they didn't want the inevitable unraveling of the Christmas myth to cast any doubt on the divinity of Jesus. I suppose some ironies are harder to detect than others.

Love, you mock us for your sport.

For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

someone like Grace. Someone exactly like Grace, with her Ted Bundy rantsand her calming presence and—hello, irony.

I don't say my golf game is bad but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced.

He spends so much time in the sand trap you'd think he was in the cast of Baywatcb.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

Success is always less funny than failure.