Quotes About Satire

The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.

Curates are such triflers.

He says we should take it easy and that maybe he overreacted a bit. Dave said, A bit? That's like Hitler saying, 'Oooh, I just meant to go for a little walk, but then I accidentally invaded Poland.

I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.

On en a donc rigolé comme des cornichons.

I hear there are now Knightsbridge clinics offering semicolonic irrigation – but for many it may be too late.

He sucked the chicken wing philosophically.

Pangloss, he told me as he closed the book, was not as foolish as Voltaire had painted him.

A ferocidade, Sr. Soares, é o grotesco a sério.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Explain me to myself, you'll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I'll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.

It's smart to marry your yoga teacher so when you get divorced you know how to go down on yourself.

At the very least literature should not preen itself on mocking us and picking at our wounds, as modern writers in our days do ad nauseam. All they can write is satire, irony, parody (including self-parody), vicious sarcasm, all steeped in malice.

I like parting shots; you can't take them seriously and they're often pretty funny.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

Acum am înÅ£eles cum te poÅ£i distra la recepÅ£iile mondene: observînd cît de ridicoli sunt cei din jur.

Ann Coulter is living proof that you can't make a silk purse out of a horse's ass

The artists found out long ago that the way to combat a government that presents lies as if they were the truth is to tell the truth as if it were a joke. Humor became a means of encoded communication, and so long as they made jokes they could be vocal and invulnerable.

He was a caricature of a caricature of a loser.

Cynicism was bread and meat to everyone. And irony, too. Maybe it couldn't be helped. It was probably even necessary.

There is something funny about the human condition, and civilized intelligence makes fun of its own ideas.

Dogbert to Dilbert My invention can detect human stupidity. It has a very simple interface. All I do is point it at people. Then what does it do? Why would it need to do anything else?

Some humor experts say the secret to humor is to combine something unexpected with something bad and then make sure it's happening to someone else. But if that's all it took, serial killers would be winning comedy competitions.

That said, Snark can be effective (and funny) when done well, and without clichés. One of the problems with Snark nowadays is that it's overused, and therefore writers in this category have difficulty standing out from the crowd. Mike Nelson (of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame) has written some very funny essays and books in this style.