I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements. — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“A sack of sage, satire, irony and humor How healthy looms the Chaucer’s loomer Couplet by Mk Bhutta” — Lecturer M K Bhutta Poet Copy Share Image
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
“I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and… — John Welter Copy Share Image
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
“I mean emotionally, women are like Bruce Lee and we’re like Donald Duck. An’ I think a lotta guys are afraid of… — Jonathan Ashworth Copy Share Image
People keep saying you can't satirize Trump because he's beyond satire, but it's not difficult to just let him out and let… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Divorce is a marital welfare. It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“The verdict of this court is that the accused are guilty of witchcraft. The maximum penalty the law allows is to be… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
“Mitt Romney's first interview with Zombie Reagan: Mitt Romney came in with cheerful assurance, because he wasn’t capable of anything else. “Let… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“This combination of parody and seriousness reflects the contradictions of an era in which we find ourselves confronted with both the urgent… — Situationist International (English Section Copy Share Image
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“It is a foible of our human nature that when we have an extremely unpleasant experience, it gives us a peculiar satisfaction… — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Reimagine 2025 by Stewart Stafford Imagine no Viagra, Put yourself at ease, Flags at half-mast, limp, No one worthy to please. Imagine… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“The PM glanced a look of pure malevolence. A terrifying glimpse into what madness, ego and naked ambition it takes to lead… — Alan Dean Copy Share Image
“Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Look, I don't have the millions of dollars that Exxon has. But I've got comedy. I've got satire. I've got stars. — Laurie David Copy Share Image
“I hope Marcus (giggle) is there. Maybe he can defeat the evil Cullens with his mighty battle cry, "I can see relationships!!!” — Dan Bergstein Copy Share Image
“A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.” — Tom Morrison Copy Share Image
Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We put our flags in soil when we arrive, as if it now belongs to us and we know where we are.” — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
“My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest!” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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