Quotes and Sayings about Irony

"Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic."

Sutton: "Great for Jane, but didn't we stop saying diva like two years ago?"
Kat: "Oh, we're back to saying it ironically."
Sutton: "Our generation is exhausting."

Old age is a wonderful source of irony.

I am known for my sense of irony but even I would not have come to think of putting a Statue of Liberty into the New York Harbour.

Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

Leonard: "For God's sake, Sheldon, do I have to... hold up a sarcasm sign every time I open my mouth?"
Sheldon: "You have a sarcasm sign?"

What? Scott, come on. I'm 147 pounds of pale skin and fragile bone, okay? Sarcasm is my only defense.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the World.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.

Ellie: "Did everyone have boats back then?"
Joel: "Yeah. I had a sixty foot yacht."
Ellie: "Really?"
Joel: "No."
Ellie: "Sarcasm... making progress."

CC: "When do you find out if you got into college early? I would really love to help you pack."
Wyatt: "I detect sarcasm, which is universally regarded as the lowest form of humor."

People who can put on a serious face while joking are the scariest.

I don't appreciate your lack of sarcasm.

You know what's never saved the planet? Your sarcasm.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

You know, they say sarcasm is a metric for potential. If that's true, you'll be a great man some day.

The most efficient form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

He who can make people laugh has to be taken seriously; all people with power know that.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

Definition: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting.

Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.

To be honest, adults are pretty useless. 'Cause of their lack of sensitivity. They just get in the way.

"Well," Lockwood said, "if you judge success by the number of enemies you make, that was a highly successful evening."

I wanna be the girl you can't stop thinking about. I deserve to be that girl.

Sometimes when I'm sitting, I wish that I could be sitting harder.

Dave: "You're not our leader."
Lucy: "No, but I know what I'm doing, which is a nice alternative."

Facing the truth is really important. Ultimately, the truth always makes us stronger.

If we beheaded every ranger who laid with a girl, the Wall would be manned by headless men.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

You see things; and you say 'Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.

According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.

Don't say "I'm sorry" when you have nothing to apologize for.

Go in there with the confidence of an incredibly average white man.