Quotes About Irony

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

Aye! Claiming to be able to keep Mountshannon safe. Funny how religious folks like that say their god will protect them—right up until someone hits them with a club." "Still

Die familie heeft weinig geluk met gooiende vrouwen,' stelde Gilan droog vast. Lydia keek hem niet-begrijpend aan. 'Tja, Cassandra schakelde zijn broer met haar slinger uit, en nou heb jij hem met een pijl doorboord.

We don't know how to insult you any more' (Inter fan banner, directed at their own team)

Milan-Roma games were especially tense. Roma fans loved to sing, to the tune of Il sole mio – 'I have only one dream/Milan in flames'. Milan's fans replied with irony: 'Milan in flames? And where will you work?

Epitaphs for some Space Beasts ... He died because he split his skin. He should have opened first the tin! The sharp-toothed CATTYBAT lies here. It bit a thousand legs each year. One night while dreaming in its bed It bit itself and woke up dead! ... Wes Magee

ah! I thought the wolves used to devour the heretics, but now I see the heretics eat the wolves.

Life is a jest; and all things show it.I thought so once; but now I know it.

lago to amuse the audience, especially since Othello (like Macbeth) has no sense of humour.

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?

It is ironic that the moment you can accept yourself as you are, you can easily change yourself and become different. So long as you dislike yourself it is difficult to change, for it is self-acceptance at the deepest level which frees us to move on

Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

He was aware of the irony that he who prized his freedom and willingness to seek the truth had been happiest when he had a defined purpose, a sense of duty and obligation, and a specific destination in mind.

A tailored and pleated version of men's striped trousers flapped around her long legs and pinched in tightly at her waist – a black silk shirt, complete with silver cufflinks, rippled from broad shoulders across a small bosom. A single strand of pearls at the the throat. This was hardly a gesture to femininity, for the whole appearance contrived femininity in irony.

on the other hand, who would be a more dedicated gay-basher than a gay school board member? look at congress.

It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.

all good books are bad!

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

Benedick found irony in his knowledge that the symbiont Cynric herself had created-and inoculated into Benedick by her own hand-was the very thing that allowed Benedick to remember her murder so precisely.

Elspeth chuckles, that half-swallowed ironic laugh I've got so fond of, and lowers her voice.

The irony makes me laugh myself sick: think for a moment of ripping myself free, taking Elspeth and Gabe and running for the hells-and find out my gorgeous justification is already part of the prime minister's audacious plan for world cooperation-By the time I'm done, wiping tears onto the back of my left hand, everybody else by the windows is staring at me. I shake my head helplessly and grab Ellie's hand.