Satire Quotes

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

I don’t think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It’s not even p...

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend- provided of course he really is dead.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And ...

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And ...

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with...

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpos...

Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.

Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, a...

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; b...

Here’s a 165-year old but still fitting comment on public officials who are so sure they’re right th...

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic s...

By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mock...

I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.""I don't say homosexuality's an abomination, Mr. P...

I know a lie when I hear one.

An Ass put on a Lion's skin and wentAbout the foreset with much merriment,Scaring the foolish beasts...

Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were fe...

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accompli...

The Victrola, the Movies, a lecture: such are the three American alternatives to Silence, Scandal an...

Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...

Let Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or...

Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid p...

While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

Nevertheless a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing ...

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

Thou shalt have one God only; whoWould be at the expense of two?No graven images may beWorshipped, e...

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a ...

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't ...

Did you know that the United States is ranked fiftieth in the world in life expectancy? And the fort...

And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.There is just no way that you are the pine-scented ai...

Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason....

Akthent on thee latht thyllable.

At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location af...

This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people w...

The madrigore of verjuice must be talthibianised.

He has a very nice face and style, really," said Mrs. Kenwigs."He certainly has," added Miss Petowke...

Were you terrified, Murgatroyd?" Murgatroyd nodded eagerly. "There you go, girl: You're a terrorist....

She said when a boy and a girl dog copulate, the head of the boy's penis swells and the vaginal musc...

No, I say, it's fine.Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Real...

During the Cold War of the 1950s, American spies were issued eyeglasses with thick, clunky frames. I...

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent ve...

Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?

A question, doctor," he said. "Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and ...

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belo...

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the l...

The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was r...

The woman spoke with a heavy western North Carolina accent, which I used to discredit her authority....

My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curios...

Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supe...

We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White f...

Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards...

There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subside...

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudde...

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the...

a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man

The news that she had gone of course now spread rapidly, and by lunch time Riseholme had made up its...

She's been, but she's coming back," he said. "I expect her every minute. Ah! there she is."This was ...

It was getting very clear then (and during this week Riseholme naturally thought of nothing else) th...

She was a gardener of the ruthless type, and went for any small green thing that incautiously showed...

On the doorstep Adele met Tony Limpsfield. She hurried him into her motor, and told the chauffeur no...

Marcia was silent a moment. Then a sort of softer gleam came into her angry eye."Tell me some more a...

She paused a moment."Pepino, shall I tell all our dear friends our little secret?" she said. "If you...

This little colloquy in Adele's box was really the foundation of the secret society of the Luciaphil...

This was all splendid stuff for Luciaphils; it was amazing how at a first glance she recognised ever...

Now Miss Mapp's social dictatorship among the ladies of Tilling had long been paramount, but every n...

Miss Mackintosh waved her arms wildly."Oh, please stop, and let me guess," she cried. "I shall go cr...

Luck ever attends the bold and constructive thinker: the apple, for instance, fell from the tree pre...

Miss Mapp moved towards the screen."What a delicious big screen," she said."Yes, but don't go behind...

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find ...

Invisible things are the only realities.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, ...

Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitab...

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of the Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Ba...

It [being very rich] used to worry me, and I thought it wrong to have so many beautiful things when ...

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider ...

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

Incidentally, it’s easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with peopl...

The robots came bearing a gift and the name of it was "Plenty."Plenty is a habit-forming drug. You d...

[On school uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now the...

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs...

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. Whatever goes upo...

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations...

The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an ...

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.