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
“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
“If grass is greener on the other side, why wait at this side of the fence?” — Swapnil Thakur Copy Share Image
“A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more American than buying a Japanese car on the 4th of July” — Johnny Corn Copy Share Image
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I began writing 'Amanda Wakes Up' in 2012 as an outlet for frustration over what I was seeing in TV 'news' at… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Olga was better, in the sun, where he could see every pore in her skin. Get closer. Feel her next to him.… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
“Facebook this week announced that it's experimenting with a tag that will mark sites such as the Onion, Clickhole and Empire News… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“Today’s generation didn’t want to watch ancient actors reciting the same tired lines. They wanted to see themselves reflected onscreen –rude, raw,… — Melissa Jo Peltier Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“He had also spent a day and a half without sleep trying to start an online petition to bring back the advert… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“Eli Willard just looked at her for a long moment, and then he announced, ' Lady of the Lake strikes iceberg in… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
“It's the little things that make you want to kill someone, the way Milo drinks Diet Dr Pepper and ties his Jewfro… — Caroline Kepnes Copy Share Image
“Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As much as I think about sex, I can only with extreme difficulty conceive of myself actually performing the act. And here's… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
I tell the truth and I don't try to sugarcoat things. But I also decided that if you don't use humor or… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
“...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Jesus: I was nearly lynched by a mob made up of my hometown synagogue congregation.” — Rick Klaus Theis Copy Share Image
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an… — Horace Copy Share Image
“ Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“I want to blow your mind away, Pakistan. With love Yours destructively, TTP” — @SaroorIjaz Copy Share Image
“Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.” — Melissa Jo Peltier Copy Share Image
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it. — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
“There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Kara knew je only recognised t and a on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy pupeeter” — Saira Viola Copy Share Image
For me, 'Gulabo Sitabo' is a satire... I wanted to do satire and I think it's turned out exactly how I wanted… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
