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Quotes About Irony

Curates are such triflers.
~ Ronald Firbank
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
~ Ronnie Shakes
My dentist was married to a manicurist. But it did not work out. They fought tooth and nail !
~ Roosevelt, Eleanor
He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.
~ Louise Rennison
If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!
~ Louise Rennison
only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ...
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
she robbed me blind, the bitch!...and she's still at it! everyone who's ever done me wrong, robbed me, repudiated me, pillaged me has never suffered...and never will suffer! you could call it their reward!...robbing me brings you good luck!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Ce monde n' est je vous l'assure qu'une immense entreprise à se foutre du monde!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Ah ! Dostum ! İnan?n bana, bu dünya asl?nda tamamen insanlarla taÅŸak geçmek için yarat?lm?? koskocaman bir kand?rmacad?r.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Je voudrais voir un peu Louis XIV avec un assuré social!...Il verrait si l'Etat c'est lui !..
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
This world, I assure you, is only a vast device for kidding the world!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I'd never felt so useless as I did amid all those bullets in the sunlight. A vast and universal mockery.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.
~ Ludwig Bemelmans
There were two faces pressed cheek to cheek and looking at the camera: an overly tanned older man, grimacing and shiny, and the trophy wife. They were holding up champagne flutes in hands loaded down with bling. #ilovemyshipwreckedparents. "Hashtag asskiss," said Rafe. "Parents? She's not even his mother!" said Sukey. "Unless she had him when she was three," said Jen. I quit the app.
~ Lydia Millet
No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, Good food at it's best, you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked uo on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.
~ Lynne Truss
Não consultes dicionários. Casmurro não está aqui no sentido que eles lhe dão, mas no que lhe pôs o vulgo de homem calado e metido consigo. Dom veio por ironia, para atribuir-me fumos de fidalgo. Tudo por estar cochilando!
~ Machado de Assis
A ferocidade, Sr. Soares, é o grotesco a sério.
~ Machado de Assis
Why is it that married people always say Come in when everything they do says Get out? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.
~ Malcolm Bradbury
The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. And
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The irony, thought, is that that very desire for confidence is precisely what ends up undermining the accuracy of their decision
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The strange and mysterious and highly amusing thing is that probably you would have very great difficulty in finding a single Marxist in the U.S.S.R. You would only find Marxists among left-wing Jesuits in the faculties of universities in the West, which is one of God's little jokes.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.
~ Will Arnett
It is one of life's great ironies that most people's only connection to success is their attachment to the pain of not having achieved it.
~ Stephen Smoke