Quotes About Irony

A voice for a moment he mistook for his own defiant tones, the spiked irony he saved for moments of abject vulnerability.

The boy who was Strifbjorn is a whore. It's an irony the wolf should be prepared to savor, before he leaves the boy to his fate.

At least somebody's sense of humor was intact.

Delicious. Delicious irony, that they should come back together at the end of the world. Again. And that the wolf should know all, and the boy knew nothing. As he means…nothing.

The Governors did not care about the mortality of the humor-made laws they enforced. Or their irony either.

She chuckled and rattled her chain.

The cosmic irony of the moment didn't elude him.

He had never been able to name things himself-he was, after all, in chief a sort of archivist-but as with many archivists, a good irony and a pun delighted him.

If she'd had a head, she'd be shaking it.

Let's stop adding v and just keep going, and try to think of a solution before we become an ironic footnote to salvage tug history, shall we?

In spite of his name, Bob Troutman wasn't much of a catch.

It is ironic that the very ties that bind a husband and wife in theory- home and family- often serve to separate them in fact.

If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. —E. O. WILSON

Lighter things will happen to you, birds will steal your husband's sandwich on the beach, and your child will still be dead, and your husband's shock will still be funny.

Martial was among many who extolled the healthy life in the country, but he, at least, retained his sense of irony. My orchard isn't the Hesperides There's no Massylian dragon at the gate, Nor is it King Alcinous' estate; It's in Nomentum, where the apple-trees, Perfectly unmolested, bear a crop So tasteless that no guard needs be kept.

The always suspicious Tiberius was given an enormous fish and promptly beat the fisherman about the face with it. The fisherman, in thoughtless simplicity, responded with the comment that he was glad he hadn't given the emperor the oversize lobster he had also collected.

Looking back, I imagine that I was very odd, that I spoke too loudly, or that I said nothing when things of popular culture were mentioned; I think I responded strangely to ordinary types of humor that were unknown to me. I think I didn't understand the concept of irony at all, and that confused people. When I first met my husband William, I felt—and it was a surprise—that he really did understand something in me.

Marx's well-worn dictum that the capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang him with.

This was perhaps the final irony. Galileo the obedient Roman Catholic became an overnight Protestant hero. He would be remembered as a champion not only of science, but of the principle of free inquiry versus papist tyranny, in Milton's words "a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscans and Dominicans licensed.

It is ironic that those who seek to blend and destroy individual racial identities are the biggest enemies of diversity, while simultaneously claiming to support diversity. The end result of that form of diversity is the exact opposite of their stated goal: the destruction of individual identities and ultimately, the destruction of diversity.

your scepticism has defeated itself and become a monstrous credulity…

A ese tiempo infame lo llaman siglo de Oro. Mas lo cierto es que, quienes lo vivimos y sufrimos, de oro vimos poco; y de plata, la justa. Sacrificio estéril, gloriosas derrotas, corrupción, picaresca, miseria y poca vergüenza, de eso sí que tuvimos a espuertas. Lo que pasa es que luego uno va y mira un cuadro de Diego Velázquez, oye unos versos de Lope o de Calderón, lee un soneto de don Francisco de Quevedo, y se dice que bueno, que tal vez mereció la pena.

Así tu viuda sabrá por fin dónde duermes, era capaz de decir, y otras bromas semejantes, que maldita la gracia tenían. Pero

Me enamoré de la democracia, ¿qué le parece?… Pero es una mujer que paga mal.