Quotes About Irony

By the way, I'm Charlie." Still bent over, she laughed. The phone slipped; she pushed it back up. "I'm Carly, and that is too much. When I was in high school, I dated a guy named Harley. When I was in college, I roomed with a girl named Marley. My sister's engaged to a guy named Farley. And now you're Charlie.

What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead lawyer in the road? There are skid marks in front of the dog.

the irony of man's fate reflected in his image: that all men, from beggar to emperor, from harlot to queen, from ragged clerk to Pope, must come to this. No matter what their poverty or power in life, all is vanity, equalized by death.

William III died childless in 1702, in a fall when his horse stumbled over a molehill, an obstacle that seems as if it should have some philosophical significance but, as far as can be seen, does not.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

What's a practical nurse? One who marries a wealthy old patient.

And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I'll just take them with me.... Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?

He wasn't just dead; he was severely dead. He was one of the deadest people Hughes had ever seen, and Hughes had seen quite a few.

Goodness knows what Maxwell would make of our current relish for watching people indulging in histrionic self-exposure on television. He would certainly have a wry smile at the irony of the fact that his own electromagnetic theory provides the means of bringing such unwholesome displays into our homes.

It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

You would have to be born with a gene that doesn't allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.

The funniest thing that happened was that my dog got recognized but not me.

I recommend a little dose of cancer to anyone.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

It's definitely a little bit ironic being known for my hair because, as a little girl, I had no idea what I was doing with it. I was insecure about it. I didn't have as many references to curly girls, and I wanted to just fit in with all my other friends.

I'm a happy person. When a happy person makes a cruel movie, it becomes funny.

Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh.

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

Trump doesn't know it yet, but he will become one of the guys that he hates very soon. Soon he will be a loser.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

There's a difference between making fun of something and having fun with something.

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.