Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too. — Richie Benaud Copy Share Image
“A satirist is never certain whether he/she will be acclaimed or punished.” — Edgar Johnson Copy Share Image
“VW used to mean FAHRVERGNUGEN and now it's FARFROMUNION! Birgit Von Schondorf” — Birgit Von Schondorf Copy Share Image
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — 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
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. — James Thurber 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
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged. — Edwin Percy Whipple 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] 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
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
The most successful satirist is that one who shakes up and disturbs someones subconscious so as to make him think about something;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist.… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be… — Charles Dickens 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
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a… — Jane Porter 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
Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era. — Fran Lebowitz 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
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say… — Mike White Copy Share Image
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