Quotes About Satire

Let's not sit around and give each other hand-jobs.

For irony—exploiting gaps between what's said and what's meant, between how things try to appear and how they really are—is the time-honored way artists seek to illuminate and explode hypocrisy.

La Broma Infinita / D. F. Wallace

Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.

His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.

Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.

William Makepeace Thackeray

In jest, there is truth.

Slanders, sir. For the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams—all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.

A joke is a very serious thing.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

For the written record in this personal document, let me simply say to me, Groucho Marx, W. C. Fields, and Elaine May are indisputably funny, with S.J. Perelman the funniest human of my time on earth.

When I stepped back, I must say it was very amusing to view all of these people running helter-skelter to help a nutsy woman carry out a vengeful plan. So fascinating and, as I say, not a bad idea for satire.

lo único que me inspiran sus canciones melosas son unas ganas locas de mearles la guitarra.

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

The music coming from inside sounded like robots fucking. And complaining about it. In rhythmic monotone. European robots.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband About 30 pounds.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

Support your right to arm bears.

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

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Here richly, with ridiculous display,The Politician's corpse was laid away.While all of his acquaintance sneered and slangedI wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.