“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I don't buy the thing that you can't do satire in the age of Trump. You just have to be funny and… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Politicians kiss babies, fuck interns, and lie to everyone in between—and we still throw them parties like it’s an honor to be… — Brad Deep Copy Share Image
I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements. — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Beetroot Cossins had moved to Kuala Lumpur where she had died of lethargy and pie.” — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Warmth radiated from her skin in waves. Her pulse beneath his fingertips. The telltale flutter in her neck. Life. It mattered, was… — J. Rose Black Copy Share Image
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it:… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language,… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“But when did this anger take root? When snakes first appeared on the national scene? When water in the bowels of the… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
“An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certain that this one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Next door but one is Quinlan Broddle, a Viceroy with a fear of gardens. So much so that he sold his garden… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the… — Joe Randazzo Copy Share Image
“[Calvin's Mom is driving him somewhere.] CALVIN: Mom, can I drive on the way back? CALVIN'S MOM: Of course not, Calvin. CALVIN:… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore… — John Green Copy Share Image
If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
“I never understood a lot of things less complicated than why people put up with each other." -- Songs From Richmond Avenue” — Michael Reed Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The PM glanced a look of pure malevolence. A terrifying glimpse into what madness, ego and naked ambition it takes to lead… — Alan Dean Copy Share Image
“I mean emotionally, women are like Bruce Lee and we’re like Donald Duck. An’ I think a lotta guys are afraid of… — Jonathan Ashworth Copy Share Image
It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
“Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Look, I don't have the millions of dollars that Exxon has. But I've got comedy. I've got satire. I've got stars. — Laurie David Copy Share Image
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
“A sack of sage, satire, irony and humor How healthy looms the Chaucer’s loomer Couplet by Mk Bhutta” — Lecturer M K Bhutta Poet Copy Share Image
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and… — John Welter Copy Share Image
“A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest!” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image