Quotes of Parody - somelinesforyou

“ The Shah (of Iran) was - despite the travesties of retroactive myth - a dedicated reformer. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific. ”

- David Lodge

“ Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. ”

- Arthur Rimbaud

“ Satire is focused bitterness. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. ”

- Vladimir Nabokov

“ A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire. ”

- Chris Morris

“ The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribed harsh remedies. ”

- John Dryden

“ The end of satire is reformation. ”

- Daniel Defoe

“ The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ”

- Dave Davies

“ The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ”

- George Santayana

“ I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons. ”

- Bruce McCall

“ Moving to the estate tax would be a travesty on top of a tragedy. ”

- Harry Reid

“ Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them. ”

- Jane Roberts

“ Satire is focused bitterness. ”

- Curt Rosten

“ Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. ”

- Jean Anouilh

“ History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. ”

- Karl Marx

“ There's a fine line between participation and mockery. ”

- Scott Adams

“ There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. ”

- Mark Twain

“ All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. ”

- Lenny Bruce

“ At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad… it's meant to be a tribute. ”

- Al Yankovic

“ Max Headroom, if overly exposed, could end up as just another Muppet Nothing would be more distressing than to witness a brilliant parody of TV turn into a TV cliche. ”

- Harry F. Waters

“ When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level. ”

- Bill Paxton

“ Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire. ”

- Truman Capote

“ Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science… ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals. ”

- Walt Disney
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