You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
“Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor. — Rich Brian Copy Share Image
“We just move on, don’t we, with traitors still amongst us? But there was one thought that wouldn’t go away. If I… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
“That of all the 'oracies (aristocracy and democracy included) hypocrisy is the most flourishing.” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if… — Mike Bartos Copy Share Image
Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got… — Paul Horner Copy Share Image
“He said science was going to discover the basic secret of life some day,' the bartender put in. He scratched his head… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
“There was also a large picture in a very handsome frame, done in coloured crayons. It looked like a religious subject. I… — George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith Copy Share Image
“Like vampires and extremely rich people, black folk can sense one another. Use your Spidey Sense (Blacky Sense?). Use your blackdar to… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
“Ah, dear Reader, is there a married man living who hasn’t purged his drawers and closets of premarital memorabilia, only to have… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
Everybody says video-game adaptations are all the same, but I disagree. Normally, video-game adaptations are like Alone In The Dark, Resident Evil,… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
“Fortunately the essence of this revelation did not escape Mary despite the angel's obscure speech, and, much surprised, she asked him, So… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick. — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama. — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
“To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.” — Edwin Abbott Abbott Copy Share Image
“Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
“Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“conservative n. A person who possesses an underdeveloped taste for tyranny. liberal n. A person who believes in liberty, but only for… — Leslie Starr O'Hara Copy Share Image
“...but there's always he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean." "Wow that would be terrific," I said” — Robert Kroese Copy Share Image
“High Maintenance; I don’t like to live in place that snows a lot, albeit I’d love to visit one. I won’t marry… — Yatin Patel Copy Share Image
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.” — Angela Elwell Hunt Copy Share Image
![“Everybody says video-game adaptations are all the same, but I disagree. Normally, video-game adaptations are like Alone In The Dark, Resident Evil, Alien Vs. Predator - sci-fi creature stuff. But I think I've covered] a wide range of genres and time periods, like Transylvania in 1700 and now a…” quote by Uwe Boll](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b5d/uwe-boll-13543_adaptation_everybody-says-video-game-adaptations-ar_696145.png)
