Quotes About Irony

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

Anti-capitalism is nothing new in Hollywood. From 'Wall-E' to 'Avatar,' corporations are routinely depicted as evil. The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing corporations is an irony capitalism cannot just absorb, but thrive on. Yet this anti-capitalism is only allowed within limits.

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.

When the Beatles were on 'Ed Sullivan,' life went from black and white to color like in 'The Wizard of Oz' - and the irony I'm in the band Toto is not lost on me.

The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

There's a thin line between mockery and endorsement.

I never said half the things I said.

Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.

I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Andy Dick is so gay, he thinks Margaret Cho is funny.

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.