Satire Quotes

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

It is difficult not to write satire.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

People are always looking for something to hate on. If this is something for them to target and hate on, that's their thing. I look at it as satire.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

Satire is focused bitterness.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

Satire is the disease of art.

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.