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Satire Quotes by Joseph Addison
- 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…
- 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…
- A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the…
- Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than…
- Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part…
- Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the…
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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
- You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. — Art Buchwald
- Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is… — Lenny Bruce
- Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. — Lord Byron
- A joke is a very serious thing. — Winston Churchill
- Satire is tragedy plus time. — Lenny Bruce
- There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and… — Joseph Addison
- Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. — Benjamin Franklin
- 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
- Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet. — Alexander Pope
- The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as… — Flemming Rose
- Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public. — Frank Zappa