41 Quotes on Satire
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Playful patience is not the absence of initiative, but the art of stretching anticipation while delighting in the present's simple wonders.
Author:
Avery Matthews
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The hidden beauty of obsolescence lies in its invitation to reevaluate our values and priorities, yet intentional perpetuation immerses creativity within a thuxa of feel-good fulfillment.
Author:
Catalyst Jaguar
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Humor fluttering across generations binds old stories to fresh perspectives, curated not only between minds but love notably across times.
Author:
Juniper Hayes
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You ate shocking reveals the power of bad breath!
Author:
John Smith
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But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
Author:
Jerry Zucker
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I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
Author:
David Zucker
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
Author:
Edward Young
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People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
Author:
Robin Williams
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Author:
Voltaire
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I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.
Author:
Tracey Ullman
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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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.
Author:
James Thurber
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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Jonathan Swift
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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Yahoo Serious
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Satire is focused bitterness.
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Leo Rosten
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
Author:
Quintilian
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Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Author:
Dawn Powell
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Alexander Pope
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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.
Author:
Ben Nicholson
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The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
Author:
Ben Nicholson
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Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.
Author:
Chris Morris
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The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.
Author:
Alan Lomax
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When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
Author:
Shia LaBeouf
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For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.
Author:
Paul Krassner
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Satire is what closes on Saturday night.
Author:
George Kaufman
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It is difficult not to write satire.
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Juvenal
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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.
Author:
Mike Judge
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Author:
Molly Ivins
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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.
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Isaac Hayes
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It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
Author:
Dario Fo
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It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.
Author:
Griffin Dunne
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I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
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John Cusack
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If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
Author:
John Cusack
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The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.
Author:
Rob Corddry
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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.
Author:
Imogene Coca
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Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
Author:
Angela Carter
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Author:
Lord Byron
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Author:
Art Buchwald
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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Author:
Lenny Bruce
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Author:
Theodor Adorno
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