Satire Quotes

192 Satire quotes by 147 unique authors

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt… — Frans de Waal
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge. — John Oliver
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does.… — Molly Ivins
Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate… — Thomas Hardy
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately… — James Gleick
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored. — Karl Kraus
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 reception… — Jonathan Swift
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. — E L Doctorow
So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take… — Elizabeth Chandler
Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days… — Jonathan Stroud
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman — Oscar Wilde
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy… — Salman Rushdie
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a… — Soren Kierkegaard
I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire. — Stephen Gaghan
Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make… — Neill Blomkamp
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. — Tom Lehrer
Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire. — Jennifer Armintrout
I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just… — Michael Hastings
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of… — Alan Lomax
But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine. — Jerry Zucker
The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The… — Rob Corddry
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
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this… — Ambrose Bierce
Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. — Angela Carter

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