Irony Quotes
The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights)
Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous.
It's an irony... that we understand humans like the foreign languages... full of miss understanding and miss conceptions.
He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way they were now.
Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother's knee.
He expects us to kill him, " Palomides said to Dinadan."Some people are so demanding, " Dinadan replied. "Considering we've only just met, I mean.
John Wesley’s own grave holds the bones of many other people, including at least five ministers. One can only imagine the bickering.
The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?
(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?
If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.
The eye-roll is a 10.5 on the Ritcher. The Big One. California has slipped into the ocean.
And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible irony of the German philosopher whose influence is henceforth ineffaceable.
We met at a local restaurant.She tweeted from her Smartphone, "Socializing is so liberating compared to being hung on Social media all the time".I liked her tweet and asked for the Bill.
Think people really want to know what's out there?""Probably not. People don't know what they want, Evelyn, or life wouldn't suck
Whatever you are, do not even assume that you will be surrounded and gnawed by luxurious worms of an exquisite breed.
He was the hardest person to figure out I had ever met, which was saying something. I knew girls, after all....
But there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me.
So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist.
Can’t say what impresses me most about my followers – their good looks, their incredible intellects, or their immunity to cheap flattery.
Where did you find construction guys swapping dirty jokes in proto-Númenorean?” Aura asked.“On construction sites. Is that coffee ready?
Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead, " I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.
So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.
There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success.
I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.''Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.
When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry, ' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.
Do you work for the government, any government?”"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.
Ironic. I'm here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it's my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him.
Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony, " Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.
Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.
Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.
If she's really psychic, " Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?
I don’t know why you’re enjoying this so much.”“Because I am a connoisseur of fine irony. ’Tis a bit like fine wine, but has a better bite.
Labour day is a great American holiday that peoplecelebrate by going out and buying products made in China
It's the contradiction of life, if I were with them, I would only wish to be far away. Now that I am far away, all I do is wish for one more day surrounded by them
Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history.Atticus O'Sullivan
