Quotes and Sayings About Satire
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
-- Alexander Pope -
Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
-- Anita Brookner -
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
-- Ben Nicholson -
Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
-- Dario Fo -
Social satire has been around since people have been around.
-- David Walliams -
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
-- Dawn Powell -
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.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.
-- Edmund Waller -
One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.
-- Franklin P. Adams -
In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.
-- George Crabbe -
Satire is what closes on Saturday night.
-- George S. Kaufman -
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
-- Herb Caen -
Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
-- Jennifer Armintrout -
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
-- John Cusack -
I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
-- John Cusack -
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
-- John Dryden -
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
-- John Dryden -
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
-- John Tillotson -
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.
-- Josh Billings -
Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
-- Karl Kraus -
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
-- Karl Kraus -
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
-- Laurence Housman -
Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.
-- Lizz Winstead
