Quotes About Irony

You must be joking.' 'I save my jokes for those with a sense of humour.

Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be kicked in the nuts as soon as they try to get back up. That wasn't in the Bible, but maybe it should've been.

She'd done things to him he thought only happened to characters in country-western songs, laying waste to his car, his dogs, driving him from his home, and making an outlaw of him. It was almost funny.

I told you had to be some kind of karmic opposite to the words I love you.

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

All us humans are fouled on both ends. One we shit out of, and the other we talk shit out of.

There are two differences between an orgy and a sex club. First, at a sex club it's considered bad form to introduce yourself to someone before you start putting parts of his body in your mouth. At an orgy you are allowed to offer your name as long as you do so with an obvious sense of irony.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Poor souls! their miseries seem so much to please 'em, I scarce can find it in my heart to tease 'em.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.