Quotes About Satire

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician

In the end, everything is a gag.

There ought to be a great Distance between Raillery and Satire, so that one may never be mistaken for the other: Raillery ought indeed to surprise, and sensibly touch, those to whom it is directed; but I would not have the Wounds it makes, either deep or lasting: Let those who feel it, be hurt like Persons, who, gathering Roses, are pricked by the Thorns, and find a sweet smell to make amends.

I don't think that memes what you think it memes.

I think I'll buy a selfie stick so whenever I see someone taking a selfie I can hit them with it.

He called me a quadrilateral astronomical incandescent son of a bitch.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Algernon: You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that...

Her handwriting was sweeping, immaculate, breathless.

Saturday Night Live

Satire is merely pointing out that roses have thorns — and that we can't avoid pricks.

A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.

My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like — just don't swallow it.

You can't camp about something you don't take seriously. You're not making fun of it. You're making fun out of it.

There goes the world's wimpiest vampire.

I resent it being a truth universally acknowledged, no matter what era I find myself in, that a single woman of thirty must be in want of a husband.

Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

The only honest art form is laughter.

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.