Quotes About Satire

Boys are stupid. That's all there is to it. Boys are just stupid.

All in the Family was intellectual it was art.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

A joke worth laughing at always has an idea behind it, and usually a subversive idea.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

Humor has always been my tool of choice when confronting intolerance or ignorance, not only because "funny" material is much more likely to be shared (and thus seen), but also because I firmly believe we all, conservative or liberal, need to laugh more, even at ourselves, and even while standing up for our beliefs.

I imagine sarcasm to be a backward slanting font, each word leaning away from rather than into the next. These days it is getting harder and harder to tell reality from distortion, truth from satire, especially on the Internet.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

I don't know what humor is.

He has more chins than a Chinese phone book.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town; I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

I'm at the age when food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

Vice is as much a part of human nature as folly, and pornography may be as necessary to vent vice as satire is to vent folly.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.