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Quotes About Satire

You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph? Dude, Percy said, I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm HUNGRY.
~ Rick Riordan
Bend over, Freddy of Prussia Let the Empress take aim Your butt will fly to Russia Your brains to sunny Spain
~ Kathryn Lasky
Nothing is too ridiculous for modern politics.
~ Ken Follett
Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys...
~ Ken Kesey
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
~ Alice Walker
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
~ Dario Fo
The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
~ Oscar Wilde
[T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.
~ Albert Cossery, The Jokers
Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
~ William S. Gilbert
O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
~ William Shakespeare
There live not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old.
~ William Shakespeare
That's the humor of it.
~ William Shakespeare
Last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.
~ Woody Allen
The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.
~ Woody Allen
If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
~ Woody Allen
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
~ Woody Allen
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
~ Xenocrates
Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word of it.
~ David Nicholls
Lincoln managed to both respect religion and parody it
~ David S. Reynolds
What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.
~ David Sedaris
It's funny because it's funny.
~ David Spade
I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
~ David Steinberg
Do NOT complain about the tea. We know it tastes like someone's bathwater that has been PEED in. That's because it is.
~ David Walliams
These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendecasyllabics where the sun don't shine.
~ David Wishart