Satire Quotes

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

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.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

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.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it!

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

My pen shall heal, not hurt.

Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

The biggest problem I had with starring in Scrubs were the black doctors. I just had to keep telling myself this show was satire.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up. But the deeper thing is that I just find these people so impressive and admirable.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

Hopefully we have a slightly different vibe, but also East Side is where a lot young people live. It is a really fun, trendy, funky neighborhood, and it is ripe for satire, that area specifically.

I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Satire doesn't effect change.

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

I like to write a lot of satire.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early 70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

We're never going to be the ultimate-insider look. You can do 50 insider looks at this Hollywood business, and the satire didn't intrigue me. I think others can do that.

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets.

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.