Eulogy Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

“Poets to Come POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; But…

— Walt Whitman

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

— Karl Kraus

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who…

— Joseph Addison

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to…

— Robert Southey

I think I will be just fine without your satires. They mock my progress.

— Crosby Kwaw

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves;…

— Moliere

“The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential Awe, At…

— Alexander Pope

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a…

— Hedda Hopper

There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that…

— Joseph Addison

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern…

— William Shakespeare