Quotes about Irony
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
— Anonymous
He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.
— Francois Rabelais
When is a gift not a gift?
— Frank Herbert
APOPHASIS (APO'PHASIS) n.s.[Lat. a denying.] A figure in rhetorick, by which the orator, speaking ironically, seems to wave what he would plainly insinuate; as, Neither will I mention those things, which if I should, you notwithstanding could neither confute or speak against them.Smith'sRhetorick.
— Samuel Johnson
I don't know who St. Valentine was, but I hope he died alone, surrounded by couples.
— Miranda Hart
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
— Mark Twain
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
— Karl Barth
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
— Oscar Wilde
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
— Mark Twain
That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
— El-P
We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
— Will Rogers
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.
— Edith Wharton