“ I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of width. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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“ Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Unless a love of virtue light the flame,Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;He hides behind a magisterial airHis own offences, and strips others' bare. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through. ”
- John Oldham- Copy
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“ The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. ”
- Frederick Buechner- Copy
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“ 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 of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ The critics try to intellectualize my materiel. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages. ”
- Andy Kaufman- Copy
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“ Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain. ”
- Paul Klee- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. ”
- Art Buchwald- Copy
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“ By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation. Nobody can describe foolishness in life without much patient self-inspection. ”
- Frank Moore Colby- Copy
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“ Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery. ”
- Bill Mauldin- Copy
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“ I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
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