“What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.”
Claud Cockburn
“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“We're not talking about satirists and imitators.”
Charles Grodin
“It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine then out of a prig”
George Santayana
“The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.”
Peter De Vries
“Where do they get that stuff about me being a satirist? I just listen.”
Ring Lardner
“He's a prig. He's royalty and he can't get over it.”
Keith Giffen
