“ Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. ”
- Voltaire- 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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“ Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ A mockery king of snow. - King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ”
- Thomas Moore- 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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“ No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own. ”
- Franz Grillparzer- Copy
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“ Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. ”
- Angela Carter- 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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“ Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 Since becoming a disciple of Christ, Paul knows that all mere orthodoxy, all mere knowledge concerning God's will, is not only nothing but less than nothing. The more knowledge, the more obligation… ”
- Emil Brunner- 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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“ Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. ”
- V. Raymond Edman- Copy
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“ Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers — the rich. ”
- Stephen Bayley- 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 caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. ”
- Walt Disney- 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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“ There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
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