Satire Quotes
192 quotes by 148 authors
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
— Theodor Adorno
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
— Art Buchwald
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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when…
— Lenny Bruce
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
— Lord Byron
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A joke is a very serious thing.
— Winston Churchill
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Satire is tragedy plus time.
— Lenny Bruce
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There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are…
— Joseph Addison
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Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
— Benjamin Franklin
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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
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet.
— Alexander Pope
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The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made…
— Flemming Rose
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Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.
— Frank Zappa
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A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire…
— Joseph Addison
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If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea…
— William Hazlitt
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People are starting to acknowledge the direction the media is going. This is a good sign that we'll continue to deliver satire and news and…
— Mark Fiore
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How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.
— Mel Smith
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The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a…
— Imogene Coca
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of…
— Isaac Hayes
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Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else,…
— Paul Klee
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Satire is what closes on Saturday night.
— George S. Kaufman
Who Wrote These Satire Quotes
148 authors contributed a total of 192 Satire Quotes, led by these top contributors: