Age Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“Satire is the antidote to Pollyanna and Dr. Pangloss. It focuses our gaze sharply upon the the contrast between things as they are and…

— Edgar Johnson

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

“For even satire is a form of sympathy.”

— D. H. Lawrence

“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of Thought will…

— Mister Lemur

For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here…

— D. H. Lawrence

“... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that…

— Jane Austen

“If I can make a difference to some readers and help them to escape from some pains of unforgiveness and emotional misery by thumbing…

— Roger Macdonald Andrew

“I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers…

— William Styron

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

— Anonymous

“...grown up with very bad contemporary literature, and they find it much more fifficult to approach earlier writing than we do. The more we…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer