Art Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

— Philip Roth

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

— John Dryden

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

— Molly Ivins

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 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 is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

— D. H. Lawrence

It is difficult not to write satire.

— Juvenal