Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“A huge meringue with polio who drives everywhere in a beautifully restored Hillman Imp.” — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
“[...] with the protecting sky in all its splendour and the golden sun blazing forth against a backdrop of crystalline blue, to… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
“Next door to the Bensons is Emmet Frag, a retired pacemaker who is credited with inventing the notion of happiness. He’s currently… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Calvin, yelling: Mom, can I set fire to my bed mattress? Calvin's Mom: No, Calvin. Calvin: Can I ride my tricycle on… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“While you live, whatever your state while on earth, act the generous and manly part; and never, never , either manually or… — T.J. Llewelyn Prichard Copy Share Image
“Every student should know that statues are meant for sitting. If we're to endure their terrible old faces leering at us, the… — Henry H. Neff Copy Share Image
“On that basis, I recently tried to interest a troubled young woman of my acquaintance with Peale’s work, as a substitute for… — James J. O'Meara Copy Share Image
“Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this.… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
“No one washes their hands after they piss unless they’re in a public place. If I’m at the airport, or a restaurant,… — Shannon Lyndsy Copy Share Image
“The only grown-up other than Jacob who ever came into his schoolroom was Eli Willard. School was in session one day when… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“BOLLOXIMIAN: My pleasures for new cunts I will uphold, And have reserves of kindness for the old. I grant in absence dildo… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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