How Quote by Shoojit Sircar

'Gulabo Sitabo' is a simple satire on life. It's a genre I have tried for the first time.

— Shoojit Sircar

I liked 'Repo Man.' Satire.

— Harry Dean Stanton

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

— Mike Yaconelli

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 dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said…

— Tony Hendra

I'm uncomfortable with the word satire. In the U.K., there's quite a bit of sledgehammer weight to that word, which is the antithesis of…

— Jesse Armstrong

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 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 has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness…

— Wyndham Lewis

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only…

— Ben Nicholson

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

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to…

— Neill Blomkamp