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Quotes About Satire

The awkward moment when your iPhone battery lasts longer than most relationships these days.
~ Unknown
In this best of all possible worlds… everything is for the best.
~ Voltaire
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
~ Voltaire
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
~ Voltaire
Good-natured satirists often remark that "the best way to cure an Anarchist is to give him a fortune." Substituting "corrupt" for "cure," I would subscribe to this;
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Women," he snorted. "Can't live with 'em, can't return 'em for a full refund.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
I like children - fried.
~ W. C. Fields
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
~ Peter De Vries
Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!
~ Norm MacDonald
You know you've had too much to eat for Christmas dinner when you slump down onto a beanbag and realize... there is no beanbag.
~ David Letterman
Recently a guy was having trouble with his computer. So he unplugs it, takes it out in the alley, pulls out a gun, and shoots it eight times. Coincidentally, that's how Hillary got rid of her emails.
~ David Letterman
President Bush listed his income as $822,000. You know what John Kerry calls someone who earns $822,000? Not even worth dating.
~ Jay Leno
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
~ Voltaire
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
~ Agnes Repplier
There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card.
~ Doug Stanhope
I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.
~ Paul Fussell
Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.
~ Doug McClure
Don't go all unicorns pooping rainbows on us.
~ Rachel Caine
If Donald Trump puked, Copley Place is probably what would hit the toilet.
~ Dennis Lehane
This is America . . . where every adult shall have the full and inalienable right to eat her young
~ Dennis Lehane
We did Donald McGill, seaside-postcard stuff - middle of the road.
~ Ronnie Corbett
I'm a fan of Douglas Adams, yes.
~ Matt Berry
I tend to like dry humor.
~ Dan Scanlon
The people I make fun of most are white people. They're the dumbest ones. They really are.
~ Ralphie May