Quotes About Irony

Here's a man ready to chop another man's self-esteem to pieces with an axe, yet he cries out in pain when his own is pricked with a needle.

How odd and inexplicable are the paths of destiny. What intention did Providence have by ruining the one who it has raised up, and raising up the one who it has ruined?

En général, on ne demande de conseils, disait-il, que pour ne les pas suivre; ou, si on les a suivis, que pour avoir quelqu'un à qui l'on puisse faire le reproche de les avoir donnés.»

Their access to the emotional world of their own childhood, however, is impaired—characterized by a lack of respect, a compulsion to control and manipulate, and a demand for achievement. Very often they show disdain and irony, even derision and cynicism, for the child they were. In general, there is a complete absence of real emotional understanding or serious appreciation of their own childhood vicissitudes, and no conception of their true needs—beyond the desire for achievement.

I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.

The jail you plan for me is the one in which you will rot

it is interesting to note and also ironic that cigarettes only seem precious to us when we aren't smoking. When we are smoking, we take it for granted and we're barely even aware that we are doing it.

relaxation is like drinking bourbon to get sober.

who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison Avenue amid blasts of leaden verse & the tanked-up clatter of the iron regiments of fashion &the nitroglycerine shrieks of the fairies of advertising & the mustard gas of sinister intelligent editors, or were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality

Yo pensaba: sí, sí, tonta, muérete y verás. Y se murió, mira por donde. El listo al hoyo y la tonta al bollo...

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket...

Optimist , n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Ambrose Bierce

Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

The gods love to laugh at a happy man, however.

There's no curse like getting what you want.

They say you can see all the beauty in the world in the way a hanged man swings.

You must be fucking joking.

A legszörny?bb átok, ha az ember megkapja, amit akar.