Quotes About Satire

a silent concave of puppet buffoons neither eagles nor jaguars buzzard lawyers locuses wings of ink sawing mindibles ventriloquist coyotes peddlers of shadows beneficent satraps the cacomistle thief of hens the monument to the Rattle and its snake the altar to the mauser and the machete the mausoleum of the epauletted cayman rhetoric sculpted in phrases of cement

Mother's ironic vision of life as one prank after another

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

Mesdames, un conseil. Si vous cherchez un homme beau, riche et intelligent... Prenez-en trois ! lol

Per poco Salima non scoppiò a ridere. Se lo faceva lei era un crimine, se lo metteva in vendita un'azienda era un prodotto. Qualsiasi cosa poteva diventare un prodotto.

For even satire is a form of sympathy.

he had read in the newspaper satirical remarks about initial-carvers, who could find no other road to immortality.

Mr. Nord, bald and boring, sold equipment to hospitals and was gone a lot on overnight trips. Mrs. Nord wore eye shadow and headbands that matched her shell tops and Bermudas. For lunch she made us foods she'd seen in the pages of her women's magazines: baked hot dogs coated in crushed Special K; English muffin pizzas; Telstar coolers (lemonade and club soda afloat with a toothpick-speared maraschino cherry—a sort of edible satellite that jabbed your lip as you drank).

reality has an odd habit of catching up with satire.

With his finely honed ability to see both beauty and ugliness, Leonardo was able to create a satirical combination in his grotesques. As he wrote in his notes for his treatise on painting, "If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies within his power to create them; and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, buffoonish, or ridiculous, or pitiable, he can be lord thereof." 20

Nothing kills humor like a general and boring truth.

Cheap! But not as cheap as your girlfriend.

You want to go out to dinner sometime? Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry, infected with seven unknown diseases, gay, pregnant with lizards and clinically dead.

It's so dry the trees are bribing the dogs.

If his nose were a tail he would be the perfect image of a sow's rear end.

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface...

DARK AGE LOSERS PROBLY USED TURNIPS FOR IPHONES LOL!!!!