“A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire. — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
I'd love to pop my head above the parapet of Left-wing political satire, but not so far that you can see my… — Ivo Graham Copy Share Image
A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand… — Malcolm Bradbury 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
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
“[...] 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
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's a one-day story of a guy called Newton Kumar, and the backdrop is election: how the most powerful tool we have… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current… — George Michael Copy Share Image
A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
“Ah, dear Reader, is there a married man living who hasn’t purged his drawers and closets of premarital memorabilia, only to have… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
“I was just trying to demonstrate to the students of Rowland University that Rowland University was not infinite. It had taken me… — Jon Woodson Copy Share Image
“I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it's of no importance to me, who put us here on… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
“After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know… — Jonathan Swift 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
I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes. — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Run. Flee. Fuck off. Vanish from my presence and take the foul stench of your sordid secret with you.” — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“Some books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd...” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Disclaimer: Consider all perceived errors and scrutinize all self-evident truths.” — Adam Scott Huerta Copy Share Image
“I never said it was a rational problem,” Galahad said. “Just one that is yelled at high volume.” — Steve McHugh Copy Share Image
“Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter’s… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist! — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I have been a part of four different genres - a political satire, gangster drama, thriller and period drama. — Shriya Pilgaonkar Copy Share Image
“By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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