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Quotes About Irony

And I, a twister, love, what I abhor.
~ John Wain
I respect everything I make fun of.
~ John Waters
Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough.
~ John Wyndham
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say, "Because it's such a beautiful animal." There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Just the mother, father, and two little baby deer lit by the reddish glow of the setting sun. It was so beautiful, so perfect, so wonderful, and I thought, "Oh, I wish I had a gun." I could've just  Ã¢â'¬Â¦ BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG! I could have shot 'em, gutted em, skinned em, then sprinkled em on my cereal.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Although this is a reasonable use for massage, people with an achieving rigid structure must, because of their pattern, see it as the only reason. Ironically, this particular structure of rigidity rejects any good feeling or pleasure that does not come from their own actions
~ Elliot Greene
A fit encomium for marital bliss," Beaumont said, putting down his knife and fork. "Dancing to a tune one neither likes nor understands, with a partner who thinks you a cadaver.
~ Eloisa James
It was as if the world was presenting her with everything she wanted ... in all the wrong ways.
~ Eloisa James
Românul îÅŸi zeflemiseÅŸte propria lui condiÅ£ie ÅŸi se risipeÅŸte într-o autoironie facil? ÅŸi steril?.
~ Emil Cioran
De dou? mii de ani Iisus se r?zbun? pe noi pentru c? nu a murit pe o canapea.
~ Emil Cioran
lumea este un teatru ciudat. Sunt clipe cind cele mai proaste piese au cel mai mare succes.
~ Emil Cioran
Nothing more aggravating than a seamless, unremitting irony which leaves you no time to breathe and still less to think; which instead of being inconspicuous, occasional, is massive, automatic, at the antipodes of its essentially delicate nature. Which in any case is how it is used in Germany, a nation which, having meditated upon it the most, is least capable of wielding it.
~ Emil M. Cioran
History is irony on the move.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Noble gestures are always suspect. Each time, we regret having committed them. Something false about them, something theatrical, attitudinizing. It is true that we regret ignoble gestures almost as much.
~ Emil M. Cioran
De dou? mii de ani, Isus se r?zbun? pe noi pentru c? nu a murit pe o canapea.
~ Emil M. Cioran
With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.
~ Emily Blunt
The best joke of all is to give someone just what they've wanted.
~ ballantyne tony ii
We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos.
~ ballard j g v
I see two lovers looking over the edge of the cauldron of hell. Are they contemplating a double suicide? This means their love will end in hell.' I couldn't stop laughing.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
in this society, things you'd think could only be bad jokes actually happen all the time.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.
~ Banksy
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
~ Banksy