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Quotes About Irony

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
~ Steven Wright
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.
~ John Ritter
Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.
~ Rod Serling
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
~ Rod Stewart
I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
~ Rod Stewart
My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I tell ya, my wife is never nice. She won a trip to Las Vegas for two. She went twice.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I figured out I'm bisexual. I have sex twice a year.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Este oscuro corazón late al lado de la necesaria ironía sin la cual se apagaría la reflexión.
~ Roger Bartra
I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.
~ Roger Daltrey
When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
~ Roger Zelazny
Now you can say you've been bitten in the ass by an ass." "That's
~ Roland Smith
Why is my skull covered with hair? To make it look like my genitals?
~ Roland Topor
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.
~ Rollo May
L'ironia è una dichiarazione di dignità. È l'affermazione della superiorità dell'essere umano su quello che gli capita.
~ Romain Gary
I experienced so intense a moment of despair, frustration and rebelliousness that irony, my most trusted weapon of defense, became instead another scalpel for probing my own wounds.
~ Romain Gary
He observed Morel with a cameraman's cold, professional stare, trying to decide why he found the man so French; he decided that it was a certain dark cheerfulness, a mixture of anger and irony, the voice and its drawling Parisian accent, and the line of the mouth which somehow always seemed to call for a Gauloise bleue.
~ Romain Gary
He tried to behave, but then despair always took the form of irony with him.
~ Romain Gary
I should've known it," he groaned. "The moment you pick up a bare-assed stripper from the Crazy Horse, she's bound to be religious.
~ Romain Gary
You can probably also call it poetic justice, even though it doesn't rhyme.
~ Ron Goulart
It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.
~ Ron Wyden
They put Omani in his box, They're using nails instead of locks. But at his funeral don't despair, The chances are he won't be there.
~ Ronald Cunningham