Satire Quotes

192 Satire quotes by 147 unique authors

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you… — Mike Judge
I like to write a lot of satire. — Earl King
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as… — Michael Flanders
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation. — Lizz Winstead
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims. — Benjamin Disraeli
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. — Horace
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel. — Josh Billings
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Satire is the disease of art. — Nicolas Chamfort
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric. — Jonathan Swift
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. — Jonathan Swift
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. — Quintilian
Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than… — James Russell Lowell
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… — Joseph Addison
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… — Joseph Addison
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… — Joseph Addison
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… — Joseph Addison
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. — John Dryden
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended. — John Dryden
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than… — John Dryden
Satire is what closes Saturday night. — Juvenal
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons. — Juvenal

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