Discreet Quote by Alexander Pope Download Open image “Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.” — Alexander Pope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discreet Discreet Run Running Satire Satire Weapon Tilt Weapon Discreet Weapons Wit
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I'm uncomfortable with the word satire. In the U.K., there's quite a bit of sledgehammer weight to that word, which is the antithesis of… — Jesse Armstrong 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. But the… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I think I will be just fine without your satires. They mock my progress. — Crosby Kwaw Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet.… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
I’ll be real discreet,” Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
You know what I never get with the limo? The tinted windows. Is that so people don't see you? Yeah, what a better way… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around… — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
