Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

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

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

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.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!

The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.