ironic tone Quotes

Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' - and it's those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats.

Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

I think there were moments on Snow White where I wished there was a little bit more of a sick humor toward Ravenna. But maybe the tone of the movie couldn't really support that. So you always have to kind of figure out where you are and adapt to it.

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast and as someone said, "If you're going to hang me, you mustn't expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution."

I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.

There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.

The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic.

She's a real adventurer, my mother.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

I have a very sardonic view of life.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.

I always try to look at the episode overall, and try to figure out where I can add something that's a little ironic or self-aware or light because I think that's what makes the show special.

The sarcasm made a slight whistling noise as it flew over Loafers' head.

I sometimes feel I have met everyone he ever met, but I never met him. I am afraid to say I have always been - the word I would have to use is - amused by Howard Hughes.