Quotes about Irony

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

The irony here is that thanks to molecular archaeology—which includes the study of ancient DNA to trace human movement over time—we now know that men have been the stay-at-homes, and women have been the travelers. The rate of intercontinental migration for women is about eight times that for men.

The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.

In tragedy anything comic is a blemish and in comedy anything tragic is ugly

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.