“VW used to mean FAHRVERGNUGEN and now it's FARFROMUNION! Birgit Von Schondorf” — Birgit Von Schondorf Copy Share Image
“A satirist is never certain whether he/she will be acclaimed or punished.” — Edgar Johnson Copy Share Image
Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? — Alexander Pope 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
I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist — Joseph Hall 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
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 average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Duas tantum res anxius optat, Panem et circenses, by the Roman satirist Juvenal.” — Juvenal 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
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
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
“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
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“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
“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
“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — 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
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
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
