Satire quotes

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◆ Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

- Ambrose Bierce100

◆ Don't steal, don't lie and don't cheat. The government hates competition

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◆ Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

- Jonathan Swift99

◆ Satire is focused bitterness.

- Leo Rosten99

◆ Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

- Carroll O'Connor99

◆ Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

- Ben Nicholson99

◆ The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

- Ben Nicholson99

◆ It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

- Mike Judge99

◆ There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

- Isaac Hayes99

◆ Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

- Lord Byron99

◆ You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

- Art Buchwald99

◆ Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

- Molly Ivins99

◆ The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

- Michael Flanders99

◆ All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

- Theodor Adorno99

◆ Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

- Angela Carter99