In the present state of the world it is difficult not to…

There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that…

— Joseph Addison

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

— Edmund Waller

It is difficult not to write satire.

— Juvenal

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who…

— Joseph Addison

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.

— William Friedkin

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

— Wallace Stevens

At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the…

— Patrick Stewart

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

— Brian Herbert

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?”

— Juvenal

Everywhere that I go in the world, people desperately look to American leadership in all of their world's most difficult problems. You can look…

— Condoleezza Rice

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

— Oscar Wilde

[Kids] will grow up into a world that's difficult and wonderful, and they'll make the best of it they can, and hopefully help turn…

— Bill McKibben

You can do pretty much anything you want in this world, and it's not all that difficult - you just have to ignore the…

— Aaron Rose

Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that…

— Anita Hill