#irony

The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean. ↗

— Diana Rowland

#dying #garden #humor #irony #sarcasm

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. ↗

— Anatole France

#irony #joy #reflection #wisdom

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#because #business #come #crumble #decades

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#mob #thinking #love

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#clap #extinguisher #irony #unhappily #upon

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #darker #even #father #humor

He sure put things into words good. ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#irony #humor

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#dramatically #end #grand #however #irony

Even English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success. ↗

— Kshitij Shringi

#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #irony #language #life

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#humor #irony #shakespeare #humor