Satirical Quotes

33 quotes by 31 authors

It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. — Joey Skaggs
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. — Pauley Perrette
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and… — Renata Adler
Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands… — Daniel J. Sullivan
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's… — Kenneth Koch
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is,… — Joey Skaggs
The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer… — Geoffrey Dutton
It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things. — Rube Goldberg
Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery — Charles Simmons
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first… — Jill Ciment
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. My prayer was to be immortalized by unintelligent gibbons on a satirical Web site. — Oscar Wilde
After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it? — Jude Morgan
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. — Renata Adler
Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives. — William C. Brown
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
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. — Paul Klee
I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me… — Paul Beatty

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