(289 quotes found)
“How do you do, Miss West? Mae West: How do you do what?”
Mae West
“Satire is what closes on Saturday night.”
George S. Kaufman
“The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them”
George Bernard Shaw
“Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.”
“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”
C.S. Lewis
“Christianity is a world that is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there a rumor going around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.”
“Satire is focused bitterness.”
Leo Rosten
“We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent”
Anatole France
“In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses”
Calvin Trillin
