Satirist Quotes

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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to… — Italo Calvino
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are,… — Quentin Crisp
Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as… — Thomas Carlyle
I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp… — Mo Rocca
I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done You can tune me out, you can click me off, it's OK.… — Joan Rivers
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback… — Joan Rivers
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist. — Charlotte Lennox
There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you… — Carl Hiaasen
A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government. — Mort Sahl
I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist — Joseph Hall
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. — David Low
The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter. — Lizz Winstead
Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because â€˜in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no longer neatly divided… — Ronald Searle
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to… — John Dos Passos
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic… — Anthony Trollope
I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality. — Rich Little
It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're… — Trey Parker
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or… — Claud Cockburn

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