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Quotes About Satire

llore si le parece yo x mi parte me muero de risa
~ Nicanor Parra
Yo no me pongo triste fácilmente Para serles sincero Hasta las calaveras me dan risa.
~ Nicanor Parra
Ur Mom is my favorite wife
~ Unknown
The editor of a Danish newspaper wonders why comedians, who boast of their willingness to 'transgress boundaries' and 'speak truth to power', will mock Jesus but not Muhammad. He invites Danish cartoonists to satirise the Prophet. Most respond by satirising the editor. It makes no difference. They still have to spend the rest of their lives under police protection.
~ Nick Cohen
The cops, however, took his satire on the chin and went on to guard him from assassins.
~ Nick Cohen
By mid-April Peter, Andrew and ourselves had felt obliged to run a spoof ad entitled 'Freak Out-Schmeak Out' to poke fun at them, but even so promoters who were jumping on the bandwagon, or just plain dumb, failed to get the joke, and their ads were still blithely using the line 'Turn up, shell out, get lost
~ Nick Mason
La técnica no cumple los viejos sueños del hombre, sino los remeda con sorna.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
~ Unknown
But satire, ever moral, ever new,Delights the reader and instructs him, too.She, if good sense refine her sterling page,Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Can you imagine a world without men? There'd be no crime, and lots of fat happy women.
~ Nicole Hollander
Intr-adevar, peste doua minute, nasul iesi. Era într-o uniforma cusuta în fir de aur, cu guler tare si înalt, cu pantaloni din piele de caprioara si cu sabie la sold. Dupa palaria cu pompon de pene, se putea vedea ca avea gradul de consilier de stat.
~ Nikolai Gogol
How, in fact, could a nose, which only yesterday was in the middle of his face, and which could not possibly walk around or drive in a carriage, suddenly turn up in a uniform!
~ Nikolai Gogol
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
~ Unknown
irony without humor is violence.
~ Noah Hawley
Humanity is a comic role.
~ Unknown
Ve Tanr?, emekli albaylar? kendi suretinde yaratt?.
~ Unknown
Cuckoos lead Bohemian lives, They fail as husbands and as wives, Therefore they cynically disparage Everybody else's marriage - Ogden Nash, The Cucko
~ Ogden Nash
I have a dark sense of humor.
~ Olivia Munn
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
~ Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
~ Oscar Wilde
Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Satire doesn't effect change.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
~ P.G. Wodehouse