Confidence Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— John Dryden

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

— Jonathan Swift

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is…

— Umberto Eco

“A printer can do the same thing and much more. He can preserve the Law, but he can also preserve the words of madmen.…

— Marek Halter

“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The…

— Jaron Lanier

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 people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

— Dawn Powell

“Printers are educated in the belief that when men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by…

— Walter Isaacson

Members of the press sometimes print things that aren't true.

— Hugh Panaro

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

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin…

— Beatrice Warde

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

— Leonard Baskin