Parody Quote by Vladimir Nabokov Download Open image “Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.” — Vladimir Nabokov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Parody Satire Sports
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Ami azt illeti, Vannak kezdtek nagyon tetszeni a fák is, a csodák is meg az Adák is.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It isn’t possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Precautions to be taken in the case Of freak reincarnation: what to do On suddenly discovering that you Are now a young and vulnerable… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise its crumbs… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, I don’t mean to infer that you’re not a great guy. I’m sure you’re the exception to the rule.” — Jaye Frances Copy Share Image
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you're not doing it big. — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
