(289 quotes found)
“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.”
Lenny Bruce
“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
Oscar Wilde
“Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage”
C.S. Lewis
“SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent.Hail Satire! be thy praises ever sung In the dead language of a mummy's tongue, For thou thyself art dead, and damned as well -- Thy spirit (usefully employed) in Hell. Had it been such as consecrates the Bible Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel. --Barney Stims”
Ambrose Bierce
“In times like these it is difficult not to write satire”
Juvenal
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.”
Art Buchwald
“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.”
“Woman was God's second mistake.”
“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
Vladimir Nabokov
