Satire Quotes - Page 2

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

Satire is focused bitterness.

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.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.

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.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Satire is the disease of art.

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.