Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“…he’d assumed their relationship would go on forever. It was going on now, but in another way, like the rearrangement of the… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can… — Mike Corbett Copy Share Image
I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“If Heraclitus was a Macedonian, his philosophy would be : No Macedonian ever steps in the same native country twice. For it’s… — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“The Dopamine Loop by Stewart Stafford I was down on the beach, She was within my reach, I wandered over to her,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“The expected battle hadn’t taken place, yet something else had. Images of the entertainment which had just gone down were already coming… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
As for "toothy kindness" - I think all traditions are full of this sort of tough kindness. If someone is on a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn.… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
“He has a very nice face and style, really," said Mrs. Kenwigs. "He certainly has," added Miss Petowker. "There's something in his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In TV writing, Armando Iannucci's satire 'The Thick of It' is brilliant - equal parts hysterically funny, terrifyingly believable, and Oh-my-God-I-can't-believe-he-actually-said-that -… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“You will be very visible in the company photo, also the website and any other marketing materials. There's no way to avoid… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
“Oh yeah, well I suddenly realises that she’d only been with my boyfriend at the Co-op Christmas do when I were eighteen.… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“The woman spoke with a heavy western North Carolina accent, which I used to discredit her authority. Here was a person for… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Also unfortunately, Congress is far too busy asking if baseball players are really as strong as they seem and trying to choke… — Robert Brockway Copy Share Image
“As they entered, Lemuel Sixpack was in the middle of his trademark long- winded oration. His last name was really Sixpack and,… — Krzysztof Pacyński Copy Share Image
Obviously, I'm a fan of satire. I'd debate anyone, but it would have to be the actual person. That would be my… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great.… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I don't know that you can do it as a satire. I mean, the business is crazy enough as it is. It's… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up.… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Tobak Davenport, who is a cross between some Sugar Puffs and Lynn Faulds-Wood, was squatting there before being removed by the local… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
People are starting to acknowledge the direction the media is going. This is a good sign that we'll continue to deliver satire… — Mark Fiore Copy Share Image
“The Macedonian Endeavour Channel was screening live coverage of the world series of the Who’s Got the Stupidest Name (WGSN) competition. First… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and… — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“My new story collection won’t please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor… — David Zucker Copy Share Image
