Quotes About Irony

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

Two guys walk into a bar. You'd think one of them would have seen it.

Gough had delivered more than ten thousand speeches to audiences estimated at more than nine million people. Among his listeners was a San Francisco surveyor who named one of the city's main thoroughfares in his honor—out of either a sense of gratitude or, possibly, irony.

My uncle and I had a fairly compact "Take My Wife" routine for two people who were not married and couldn't stand the sight of each other.

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

Funny the way it is, if you think about it Somebody's going hungry and someone else is eating out. Funny the way it is, not right or wrong Somebody's heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song.

Ironically, the internal version number of Windows 7 is version 6.1,[1] which implies that Microsoft considers its newest operating system to be a (relatively) minor revision of Windows Vista (version 6.0).

I don't know if history has a sense of justice. But it certainly has a sense of humor.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?

ESCORT CARRIERS HAD MANY nicknames, only a few tinged with anything resembling affection: jeep carriers, Woolworth flattops, Kaiser coffins, one-torpedo ships. Wags in the fleet deadpanned that the acronym CVE stood for the escort carrier's three most salient characteristics: combustible, vulnerable, expendable. That most everyone seemed to get the joke—laughing in that grim, nervous way—was probably the surest sign that it was rooted in truth.

You've seen what I can do," Thomas replied, trying to sound as dangerous as he felt. "You've watched me in the Maze and the Scorch." He almost wanted to laugh at the irony. They had made him into a killer … to save people?

Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing.

That'll be hilarious if he does all this, wakes up in some dude's body, then gets hit by a bus the next day. I'd even go to his funeral.

Thomas stood there, sorting through his options. The irony wasn't lost on him. He'd escaped WICKED only to be held at gunpoint by an average everyday city worker.

I am going to be careful not to make too much sense

The malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Two whores who finally found something to mother. A guy could write a book about it, he thought bitterly, call it From Hair To Maternity . It would probly be a very long book. Whores did not produce as fast as rabbits.

because everyone's life is full of absurdity, improbability, and general craziness.

I looked like a million bucks. An unarmed million bucks, which isn't necessarily the best combination.

The meal had included five courses, an irony for a summit that had gathered to discuss world hunger. The

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.