“In times like these it is difficult not to write satire”
Juvenal
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Mark Twain
“People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.”
Robin Williams
“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”
“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
“I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
Lord Byron
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.”
Jonathan Swift
