Things happen for a reason Quote by Mak_786

The most successful satirist is that one who shakes up and disturbs someones subconscious so as to make him think about something; otherwise his…

— Anonymous

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

— Mike Yaconelli

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

— Gore Vidal

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, 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 at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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 the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high…

— John Dos Passos

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— John Dryden

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