Quotes About Satire

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

casual comments I may or may not have made, in which I may have suggested she was the "hellspawn of Betty Crocker and Charles Manson.

Fortunately, octo-cannibalism is the sort of thing that leaves me morally outraged without actually ruining my appetite

shit yourself

In the first half of the play he is the anti-heroic and burlesque figure long familiar in comedy and satyr drama.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

the laughable is a species of what is disgraceful.

As, in the serious style, Homer is pre-eminent among poets, for he alone combined dramatic form with excellence of imitation, so he too first laid down the main lines of Comedy, by dramatising the ludicrous instead of writing personal satire.

Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly

it's only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!

He seems to have declared war on the King's English as well as on the English king.

I've been drinking goat's milk and went to see the doctor. Quite a living they make from me, the doctors! They should all drop dead and take the pharmacist with them.

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics.

Certainly Lewis failed—or refused—to sketch a solution to the threat of fascism. He was a social satirist, not a systematic political thinker or theorist. Worth

As she went dragging through the prickly-hot street she reflected that a citizen of Gopher Prairie does not have jests-he has a jest.

Babbitt looked up irritably from the comic strips in the Evening Advocate. They composed his favorite literature and art, these illustrated chronicles in which Mr. Mutt hit Mr. Jeff with a rotten egg, and Mother corrected Father's vulgarisms by means of a rolling-pin. With the solemn face of a devotee, breathing heavily through his open mouth, he plodded nightly through every picture, and during the rite he detested interruptions.

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?