“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you." [ Love's Last Shift ]” — Colley Cibber Copy Share Image
“After we deal and heal...NOT A A SHRED OF EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT LIFE IS SERIOUS …Jan Marshall” — Jan Marshall 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
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
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
“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
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 connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Obama's plan for "change": Let's do everything Bush did, only with more suck! Because it just didn't suck badly enough the first… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some… — Joseph Addison 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
“They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“On the other side of St John’s house is a fake egg timer who can’t maintain an erection. He shares the property… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for… — Griffin Dunne 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
I'm a human person, so I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I'm mocking. But at the end… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
“Does it stand, but not straight enough? Is there a bend in the tool? Leaning left like the Marxist-Leninist Party? To the… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“His life was now the life of a collector, and that gave it meaning. Evening after evening he would count and arrange… — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
“This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that… — Bret Easton Ellis 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
“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
“[Uh-oh, it's bath time for Calvin.] MOM, who sits in the living room, has turned toward the door. Very likely she is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“The Boy will not be a failure. Mythili knows.She has seen the generations before.The boy will make it.As his father has said,he… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
“Procuring the house in Ballister was a desperate bid for respect, for recognition, the ultimate gesture (or sacrifice, as it turned out)… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image