Humor Quote by Edgar Johnson

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

— Jonathan Swift

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

— Ambrose Bierce

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…

— Ambrose Bierce

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow…

— Graydon Carter

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…

— Jonathan Swift

“Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.”

— Edgar Johnson

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

— Dawn Powell

“...the very greatest satire, I came to think -- the kind that lives forever -- ultimately grew out of a debunking attitude toward the…

— Terry Castle

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

“For even satire is a form of sympathy.”

— D. H. Lawrence

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

— Anita Brookner

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not…

— Joseph Addison