Quotes About Satire

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

NO I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey - I've been close enough to Jay Leno in real life.

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Sarah Palin is living proof that you can't make a silk purse out of a horse's ass.

I couldn't help but wonder: are we pushing the idea of carnival too far, and turning everything into entertainment?

What have you been reading, The Gospel according to St. Bastard?!

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

Si no fueran unos sanguinarios hijos de puta, serían para cagarse de la risa.

People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

The private umbrella is father's favorite figure to illustrate the old way when everybody lived for himself and his family. There is a nineteenth century painting at the Art Gallery representing a crowd of people in the rain, each one holding his umbrella over himself and his wife, and giving his neighbors the drippings, which he claims must have been meant by the artist as a satire on his times.

El paraguas individual es la imágen favorita de mi padre cuando quiere caracterizar el tiempo en que cada uno vivía sólo para sí y para su familia. Hay un cuadro del siglo XIX que representa una multitud bajo la lluvia, donde cada cual mantiene su paraguas por encima de su cabeza y la de su esposa, y obsequia a su vecino con las gotas que chorrean de aquél. Dice mi padre que ese cuadro debió ser para el artista una especie de sátira de aquellos tiempos.

You know, I've always wanted a child. And now I think I'll have one… on toast!

Confucius say: "Baseball wrong — man with four balls cannot walk."

Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit.

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

If your husband and a lawyer were drowning and you had to choose, would you go to lunch or to a movie?

Oh my God, they killed Kenny!

I've used up all my sick days so I'm calling in dead.

Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your cigarettes.

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?