Quotes About Satire

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

If God hadn't meant us to hunt men, he wouldn't have given us Wonder Bras.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."

I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.

I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.

Man, it just cost me five dollars to beat my own meat... God bless the United States of America.

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.

I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.