Quotes About Irony

It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

Why didn't you tell me that evil could be so lighthearted?

It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.

That's like the dog calling the cat's arse hairy!

How ironic. You spend your whole life resisting the notion that there's someone out there smarter than you are, and then all of a sudden you're so relieved to know it's true. All of a sudden, you're not too proud to ask for help.

L'ironie dénonce, le cynisme autorise.

Pueden ustedes reírse de mí, cuando les dé la espalda.

Writing is a compensatory activity, and literature abounds in cases like his. Borges's pages teem with knives, crimes, and scenes of torture, but the cruelty is kept at a distance by his fine sense of irony and by the cool rationalism of his prose, which never falls into sensationalism or the purely emotional. This lends a statuesque quality to the physical horror, giving it the nature of a work of art set in an unreal world.

Son chispazos de humor que se agradecen, que revelan que en el interior de ese ser «podrido de literatura» había picardía, malicia, vida.

Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.

She believed that the arrogance of humankind created a deadly irony: in their determination to control nature, human beings posed a growing threat to all life on earth, including their own.

A Being who's higher than we are?! LOL!

It is one of the central ironies of my career that as soon as I got off heroin, things started getting really bad.

The horribly ironic cosmic trick of drug addiction is that drugs are a lot of fun when you first start using them, but by the time the consequences manifest themselves, you're no longer in a position to say, "Whoa, gotta stop that." You've lost that ability, and you've created this pattern of conditioning and reinforcement. It's never something for nothing when drugs are involved.

There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things.

Sé practico: regala un ataúd

shit yourself

STREPSIADES. So the rear of a gnat is a trumpet. Oh! what a splendid discovery! Thrice happy Socrates! 'Twould not be difficult to succeed in a law-suit, knowing so much about the gut of a gnat!

the laughable is a species of what is disgraceful.

Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you . Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.