It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

G.K. Chesterton

Tags: advertising hypocrisy philanthropy irony



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As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will—what? Lessee, I'll beg friends to assure me I'm fascinating, that my soul is complex so I can once more conduce to irony. An abyss opens up.

Maryse Holder

Tags: self-esteem confidence despair loneliness irony assurance



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But who is ever fair in an argument?

A.B. Shepherd

Tags: humor life-lessons irony life-philosophy quirky



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You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Tags: internet government control crime privacy irony mail ironic government-programs sad-but-true spying data gadfly conspiracies data-mining internet-privacy data-collecting felonies



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How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity

Jane Austen

Tags: jane-austen irony



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I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.

Jasper Fforde

Tags: funny irony boring-books



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So we came to say hello. To the world’s grouchiest person. Because that’s such fun.

Molly Ringle

Tags: irony grouchy moods



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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

David Foster Wallace

Tags: art success writing artist irony persona exhibition



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He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Tags: fantasy science-fiction irony



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What do you think the Order is going to do?" he asks.
"Help us open a door to Hell, if we're lucky," I reply. Lucky. Ha ha. The irony.

Kendare Blake

Tags: humor hell irony help order lucky



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