Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect… — David Low Copy Share Image
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
“Duas tantum res anxius optat, Panem et circenses, by the Roman satirist Juvenal.” — Juvenal Copy Share Image
As a comedian and satirist you have to be neutral, because everyone's fair game. Once you show bias, you lose that. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no… — Ronald Searle Copy Share Image
I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling… — Mo Rocca 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
I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done. You can tune me out, you can click me… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Spare a thought in 2013, this horrible horrible time to be alive, for the satirist. To satirise the self-satirising effluence that passes… — MJ Nicholls 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
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
I'm glad to be able to announce that the UK now has it's very own mindless twit. || Either that or he's… — Tim Worstall Copy Share Image
The most successful satirist is that one who disturbs someones subconscious so as to make him think about something; otherwise his satire… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality. — Rich Little Copy Share Image
The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter. — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen. — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
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