Quotes About Satire

There are times when I would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. -

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

Foo-foo the First, King of the Mooncalves!

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

My complaint simply concerns the decay of the _art_ of lying.

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution- these can lift at a colossal humbug- push it a little - weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.

the BTK Killer (which to me sounds more like something you order from a drive-thru window).

I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.

As for me, I'm a gurgling wizard of calorific excess.

I wouldn't have minded a rather more detailed conclusion (to Pride and Prejudice) — say, a twenty-page sex scene featuring the two principals, with Mr. Darcy, furthermore, acquitting himself uncommonly well.

The comic effect of the satire is derived from the simultaneous presence, in the reader's mind, of the social reality with which he is familiar, and of its reflections in the distorting mirror of the satirist. It focuses attention on abuses and deformities in society of which, blunted by habit, we were no longer aware; it makes us suddenly discover the absurdity of the familiar and the familiarity of the absurd.

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

Byron, in "Don Juan", face o satira amara la adresa femeilor care transforma dragostea intr-o "afacere de cap" uitind ca au "inima". Capul vine dupa inima, caci nu el este centrul corpului, ci o dezvoltare a lui. Cind moare un erou i se imbalsameaza inima, in timp ce filozofii si poetii au parte, dupa moarte, de cercetarea amanuntita a craniului si creierului.

Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace.

Fiercely competitive TV channels covered the story of the breaking city as "Breaking News." Nobody pointed out the irony.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

I should imagine that in my time I have eaten enough horses to provide a royal escort.

look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. —Jules Renard, 1890

Perhaps you've heard the one about the difference between a bass player and a large pepperoni pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four. I

Cicero's take on official Rome was less flattering: "A more raffish assemblage never sat down in a low-grade music hall," he huffed