Quotes About Irony

There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

And if that wasn't funny, there were lots of things that weren't even funnier.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him. Catch 22

Suponho que não vão enviar um louco para a morte? – Então, quem iria?

and a great, choking moan tore from Yossarian's throat as McWatt turned again, dipped his wings once in salute, decided oh, well, what the hell, and flew into a mountain. Colonel

Yossarian devia a sua boa saúde ao exercício, ao ar puro, ao trabalho de equipa e ao bom desportivismo, e fora para se esquivar a tudo isso que descobrira o hospital.

A true prince. One of the finest, least dedicated men in the whole world.

He found himself in the ironic position of being the indispensable man in a political world that regarded all leaders as disposable.

Concerning the boast of Voltaire on the extinction of Christianity and the Bible in 100 years, Geisler and Nix point out that only fifty years after his death the Geneva Bible Society used his press and house to produce stacks of Bibles. 32/ 123,124 WHAT AN IRONY OF HISTORY!

Art that samples other art, quotes that quote other quotes--your writer knows this phenomenon, in jargon 'he's aware', he was raised in a culture of (not more ironic jargon, select only the most appropriate gustatory analogy): regurgitation, a culture of glutting to vomit and glutting again on the vomit until reemesis--chunky cheese mimesis--then licking that puddle again.

I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

How ironic, it seemed to me, yet, perhaps, how symbolic, that in our age of rapid mass production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be so misrepresented in most anthologies and textbooks! Of

Only the good die dumb.

For a man who's just inherited a small empire, Ian, you have a remarkably sour expression on your face. Would you care to join me for a drink and a few hands of cards, my lord?" An ironic smile twisted Ian's lips as he turned to acknowledge one of the few aristocrats he respected and regarded as a friend. "Certainly," he mocked. " Your Grace. " Jordan Townsende laughed. "It gets a little tedious, does it not?

If you aren't a living example of 'the devil quoting scripture.'

The irony is that the novel with its Pulitzer and its controversy has brought more attention to Mary Hallock Foote than she would ever have received otherwise.

Great. An asthmatic goon.

Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic. This is the story of her last night.

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

It was all horribly ironic that she felt like she would need to be insane to believe the proof that she had never been crazy.

May you fall from the top of the Chrysler Building and may people lean out their windows and hit you on the head with a baseball bat as you go by.

When I was a college dean, another job people take seriously, I think I kept signaling that I held myself at an ironic distance from the role.