Quotes About Satire

he was about as erotic as an old football coach.

occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros Rehashed cabbage is the death of wretched teachers. Juvenal Satires 7.154, criticizing the repetitive dullness of the highly conservative and unimaginative school curriculum

Gags die, humor doesn't.

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

Vanity is the Death of Comedy.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Speedboats, made-up aristocratic titles, exploding dildos… You're not living in a fucking TV series, Villanelle.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim."

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim.

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

Romance of Reynard the Fox

this beast epic is throughout a keen satire not only upon medieval society, but upon human nature in all ages.

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

Though he never went as far as some of the extremists, his music of the next several years had many of the same elements of the wider artistic revolution: a joy in angularity; a pleasure in surprising effects; an addiction to the grotesque; irony, sarcasm, and satire; an emphasis on bright color and flat, hard surfaces.

Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.

His gall in holding the rally directly under the noses of the supreme court was humorous, even admirable.

why is there no right-wing Daily Show? And we would glibly, pridefully answer that the conservative movement could not be funny because it was, by nature, authoritarian, prudish, untruthful, and dull.

According to Frank, religion is just another kind of taxidermy.

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

John Kennedy Toole

producing Mr. Reilly in the abundant flesh.

Miró agradecido la nuca de Myrna, la cola de caballo que golpeaba inocente sus rodillas. Gratamente. Qué irónico, pensó Ignatius. Y, tomando la cola de caballo con una de sus manazas, la apretó cálidamente contra su húmedo bigote.

I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.