Adults Quote by Andy Kaufman

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous,…

— Lenny Bruce

I think I will be just fine without your satires. They mock my progress.

— Crosby Kwaw

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

— Garry Trudeau

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

— Irwin Shaw

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

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

Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me…

— Karl Kraus

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by…

— Elizabeth George

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow…

— Graydon Carter

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

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

— Marlon Wayans

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