Top 400 Satire Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.
Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.
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.
I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
Paul Verhoeven is one of my favourite directors. I love his ability to mash extreme violence with humour and satire.
I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.
Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.
Gentle mockery or sharp satire aimed at Christians and their leaders have been replaced by abuse of Christianity itself.
Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct.
Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and truthful.
The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.
I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'
Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals on expenses, are beyond satire.
I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.
Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.
I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.
I have shot for a political satire by Anubhav Sinha called 'Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai.'
'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing.
In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.
A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?
I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.
What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.
You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.
It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.
Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.
Ksenia Sobchak as president is like Sergei Shnurov as an artist. It's satire. It's a very high-level art project.
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.
There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art.
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.
There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.
