Satire Quotes

Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon.

I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

They tugged plans and ambitions out their as*es and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante

If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with respect when they are beautiful and throw them on the highway when they are dead.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)

No, I say, it's fine.Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.

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

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.

[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament,

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend- provided of course he really is dead.

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is, " said Martin.

Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.

Almost as a rule, political dissidents were writers.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Unless it is you, finding out who your lover’s dream lover is is a nightmare.

Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will never love each other.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.

To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.

Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish.

Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.

The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

He with the cleanest clothes isn’t necessarily the cleanest.

Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.