Beholder Quote by Jonathan Swift

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

— Jonathan Swift

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do…

— Maajid Nawaz

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

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

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 is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

— John Dryden

I'm uncomfortable with the word satire. In the U.K., there's quite a bit of sledgehammer weight to that word, which is the antithesis of…

— Jesse Armstrong

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to…

— Neill Blomkamp

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed.…

— Carl Hiaasen

I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at…

— Harold Ramis

Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it…

— George Michael