Parody Quotes

The neuroses parody the virtues.

— Mason Cooley

In education, parody is obsolete.

— Alfie Kohn

Parody is homage gone sour.

— Brendan Gill

I see parody as another form of comedy.

— Bruce Campbell

“nice knowing ya...”

— Fake Cinna

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

— Milan Kundera

“Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!”

— Hillary DePiano

I can only parody stuff I love.

— Fred Armisen

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

— Max Tundra

“You are fifty different kinds of twisted." "Only fifty? Val, you wound me.”

— Nenia Campbell

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

— Mason Cooley

Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you're not doing it big.

— Chamillionaire

“Everything can be parodied, even parody.”

— Victor Hugo

Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

— Truman Capote

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

— Leonard Cohen

“All families are silly in their own way.”

— Alan Hollinghurst

I get a little off-put when people see 'The House of the Devil' as an homage to the Eighties because I consider…

— Ti West

“No one should ever take them self or others too seriously." ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

— Ana Gasteyer

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

— David Foster Wallace

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and…

— N. T. Wright

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

— Stephen Leacock

The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world.

— Ronny Chieng

Being a baby is the most sweet memories; but being a parody is the most tweed mandatories

— Anonymous

Look at the fact Donald Trump cannot tie a tie. My father took me aside and taught me how to do this…

— Stephen Marche

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating…

— Alan Bennett

“I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend.…

— Jess C. Scott

“If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise…

— Stewart Stafford

“Of course, one is familiar with the experience of seeing something ambiguous. “Now it is the Taj Mahal—now it is fog.” And…

— Michael Frayn

“The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of medieval schoolmen…

— Edith Wharton

Stand-up was interesting to me at the beginning, because I was trying to parody it. My early stand-up was really Andy Kaufman-esque,…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

“(Parody that is often falsely believed to be a true quote of Mariah Carey's) Whenever I watch TV and see those poor…

— Mad Magazine Editors

North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their…

— Barbara Demick

“My father despises cats. He believes them to be Democrats. He considers them to be little mean hillary clintons covered all over…

— Patricia Lockwood

“Carlisle says Siobhan's super power was the ability to do whatever the hell she wanted. I swear, that's what Carlisle says. Her…

— Dan Bergstein

The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic…

— Slavoj Žižek

“You see, writers traveling to Southeast Asia visit indigenous communities. No writing quest will be complete without some cross-cultural comparisons. This exercise…

— Merlin Franco

“I’ve had affairs before but never like this - I need a reason to leave my wife,” Shimansky said, desperately appealing to…

— Chassis Albuquerque

"National Anthem" was just a funny idea I'd been knocking about. I initially thought about a beloved celebrity having to do that…

— Charlie Brooker

There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that…

— Al Yankovic