Comforting Quote by Michael Flanders

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 of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

— Herb Caen

The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry,…

— Tom Lehrer

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous,…

— Lenny Bruce

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral…

— E. L. Doctorow

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 exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

— D. H. Lawrence

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

— Theodor Adorno