Quotes of: Satire Keyword

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.

The Essential Lenny Bruce: his original unexpurgated satirical routines

Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.

A Treasury of Satire

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

Isaac Hayes

A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.

Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed

One must lose one's life in order to save it.

Maybe: Incidentally: The Satire of Federico Mangahas: Essays

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.

Rob Corddry

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 Nicholson

He was a boom boom shake the room " kind of guy

Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed

The real woman does not want to be equal but different.

Maybe: Incidentally: The Satire of Federico Mangahas: Essays

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

Theodor Adorno

Satire is the antidote to Pollyanna and Dr. Pangloss. It focuses our gaze sharply upon the the contrast between things as they are and as they should be.

A Treasury of Satire

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

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.

Anthony Trollope

Mishaque was a stouty blend of Irish "shrek" mixed with crazy Jafakain, his front was car dealing.

Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

The Satires of Persius

'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

Patrick Stump

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

The Satires of Horace

... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

Sense and Sensibility

And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.

Cat Country : A Satirical Novel of China in the 1930's

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

The Poems of John Donne; Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of