Ironic Humor Quotes

#1. The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

Robert Olen Butler

#2. Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.

John Kennedy Toole

#3. Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

Frankie Boyle

#4. We're weird guys. I don't know if a lot of people get our humor. A lot of people probably think we're jerks. We're real sarcastic. Really ironic and stuff. We mean well, but we joke around probably a lot more than we should.

Brendon Urie

#5. It's ironic that as scientists that don't believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god.

Hiromu Arakawa

#6. It's because I'm pregnant, Christian."
He snorts, and his mouth twists into an ironic smile. "If I knew getting you knocked up was going to make you eat, I might have done it earlier.

E.L. James

#7. Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Your advice seems a little ironical."

"Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it - that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.

Thomas Henry Lister

#9. And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

Susan Kay

#10. No one plows the field just by thinking about it.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#11. Amusement, even ironic amusement, is the beginning of sincere appreciation, as any lapsed hipster knows.

Last Man Standing

#12. You won't comprehend the vitality of literacy until you marry an illiterate.

Kshitij Shringi

#13. The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

Frederick Lenz

#14. The person sending ironic text messages has no idea that their voice does not sound so great in text. There's no dry sense of humor in a text. It comes off as a little bit shitty.

Natasha Lyonne

#15. Cam's wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed.
"Holy Hell," Callie whispered, blinking.
"More or less," Arriane said

Lauren Kate

#16. The only ironic thing about that song is that it's called 'Ironic' and it is written by a woman who doesn't know what irony is. That's quite ironic when you think about it.

(on Alanis Morissette's 'Ironic')

Ed Byrne

#17. For all the accomplishments of molecular biology, we still can't tell a live cat from a dead cat.

Lynn Margulis

#18. There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it.

Chris Hardwick

#19. I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?

Ryan Lilly

#20. I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance,complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

Helen Fielding

#21. And an anteater plus a large hungry mutant ant? An ironic way to die.

Bo Burnham

#22. Humor is hard to catch in a second language. Especially when you're as serious a young man as Giovanni. He said to me the other night, 'When you are ironic, I am always behind you. I am slower. It is like you are the lightning and I am the thunder.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#23. Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#24. I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.

Charles Dickens

#25. I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that's when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater.

Demetri Martin

#26. The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights)

Elaine Kagan

#27. People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

Terry Pratchett

#28. Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others

Yana Toboso

#29. What is your advice to young writers?"
"Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

Charles Bukowski

#30. It's a sad day when you count a man lucky for only losing a left hand and part of his ass.

Dean M. Cole

#31. I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Simon Pegg

#32. Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.

Jeff Lindsay

#33. If you're Microsoft, you can prevent a porn site using microsoft.xxx. Although that would be ironic since micro and soft probably aren't at the forefront of desirable concepts when you're looking for porn.

Gary Corby

#34. Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

Christopher Heyerdahl

#35. Don't fucking quote me!

Roni Batti Kajou

#36. The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

Leah Hager Cohen

#37. What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing

Willem Lange

#38. I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

Ray Bradbury

#39. I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.

Howard Dean

#40. -"He loved her ... It was noble of him. It was beautiful."
-"It was stupid.

Lloyd Alexander

#41. Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh? (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207)

Christopher Paolini

#42. They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.

Neal Stephenson

#43. I want to know what it is to love, to hate, to lust, to kill. I want it all. And I shouldn't

Christine Fonseca