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Quotes About Irony

I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.
~ Joan Rivers
I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
~ Israel Horovitz
Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.
~ Sandra Tsing Loh
The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.
~ Greg Kinnear
When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'
~ Roy Lichtenstein
It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.
~ Ryan Reynolds
I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
~ Albert Brooks
Earnestness makes British people gag.
~ Pamela Druckerman
We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
~ Zach Galifianakis
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
~ Frederick Douglass
Es extremadamente listo, considerando lo estúpido que es.
~ Frederik Pohl
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all 'good things'!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Ng??i ta sát h?i không ph?i b?ng cÆ¡n ph?n ná»™ Ä'iên cu?ng, mà chính b?ng ti?ng c??i
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The fact that humanity knelt down before the opposite of the origin, the meaning, the right of the evangel, the fact that in the concept of 'church', humanity canonized the very thing the 'bearer of glad tidings' felt to be beneath him, behind him - you will not find a greater example of world-historical irony - -
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York." She did not understand the paradox.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming like the passengers in his car.
~ G.M. Ford
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.
~ Douglas Coupland
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
~ George Herbert
It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.
~ Ian Watson
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
~ Alexander Pope
Comedy comes with a bit of sarcasm, wit and edginess.
~ Kiku Sharda