Quotes about Irony
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh
- George Bernard Shaw
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
- Mark Twain
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.
- Philip K. Dick
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
All generalizations are false, including this one.
- Mark Twain
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.
- Will Rogers
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
- Will Rogers
Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They dont know theyre being funny.
- Stephen Colbert