Satire Quotes

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

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.

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

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

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

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

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

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

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

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

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

My approach is I put God first; I say "God willing" all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can't really change anything, I'm just going to satire it.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

When George Bush finally leaves the White House, the satire industry will briefly join the rest of the economy in recession. It will certainly be the end of an era.

Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia. I think it's the thing we do best.

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.