Gillian Flynn Quotes

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.

When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

We actually became just what it was that we'd set out to make fun of.

Earnestness makes British people gag.

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

What all my favorite comedians have in common is extraordinary honesty.