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Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.


Dario Fo

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ROBIN WILLIAMS The critics try to intellectualize my materiel. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that...
ANDY KAUFMAN People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
ROBIN WILLIAMS By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the li...
FRANK MOORE COLBY I think the reason that satire is on the rise is because the real news is so bad right now, ... I'd ...
ANDY BOROWITZ There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and ...
ISAAC HAYES There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and ...
ISAAC HAYES We are not playing these people with parody or satire. We are playing these people dead earnest. I'm...
BILL PAXTON It's a satire!
MARC CHERRY Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they ...
DAWN POWELL Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
ANGELA CARTER There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin...
KATE CHRISTENSEN A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.
CHRIS MORRIS Satire is focused bitterness.
LEO ROSTEN People love burlesque today because it incorporates all the old-school glamour, satire and highlight...
BABY DOE It's meant to be satire, farce.
TORY DOBRIN Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Satire is particularly valuable in a country like ours.
DAN RATHER Both public and private television have been full of shows, opinion makers and people who attack Ber...
SILVIO BERLUSCONI Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
ALEXANDER POPE The music is great and it's a great political satire.
JOY ALLAIN Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
EDWARD YOUNG Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
ALEXANDER POPE Satire is what closes Saturday night.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Praise undeserv'd is satire in disguise
HENRY BROADHURST The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
BEN NICHOLSON The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
YAHOO SERIOUS I like to write a lot of satire.
EARL KING This has a lot of satire in it.
KATHERINE HOUGH Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
CRAND BRITON Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
QUINTILIAN It is difficult not to write satire.
JUVENAL Satire is what closes on Saturday night.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Fools are my theme; let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
YAHOO SERIOUS It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
UNKNOWN Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there i...
BEN NICHOLSON I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a...
MIKE YACONELLI It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
JOHN OLIVER It is a satire of the first family, so I certainly studied her.
MARCIA GAY HARDEN Praise undeserved s satire in disguise.
HENRY BROADHURST Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
T. J. MILLER (It's) intended as a piece of political satire, no more no less, and I hope that it will make people...
GEORGE MICHAEL If grass is greener on the other side, why wait at this side of the fence?
SWAPNIL THAKUR You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is record...
ART BUCHWALD I think it was intended as satire.
DINESH D'SOUZA The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and i...
IMOGENE COCA In times like these it is difficult not to write satire
JUVENAL Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
MOLLY IVINS A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
G.K. CHESTERTON You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.
MICHAEL MOORE 'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With m...
PATRICK STUMP Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.
WILLIAM HAZLITT It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
DARIO FO I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
CARROLL O'CONNOR Satire and believability are irresistible to the news media.
JOEY SKAGGS You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
ART BUCHWALD Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet.
ALEXANDER POPE There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough, And some...
ALEXANDER POPE Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; ...
ALEXANDER POPE I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfactio...
JOHN OLDHAM Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Th...
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork...
JAMES JOYCE Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hi...
WILLIAM COWPER It is a pretty mocking of the life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into a...
MARGARET CHO It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause; And aiming at t...
CHARLES CHURCHILL It is satire, but it remains in the realm of the real, as opposed to something like 'Dr. Strangelove...
NICOLAS CAGE There's a certain depth to the stories and to the satire. I think we're craving something not as vul...
JESSICA FULLER Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; w...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpos...
VOLTAIRE It?s at the very core of our culture that the most sacred things can be subjected to criticism, laug...
ROGER KOEPPEL I can see that inevitably people are going to point fingers. I think what is amusing is that people ...
DARREN STAR Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their ow...
JONATHAN SWIFT reality has an odd habit of catching up with satire.
WALTER ISAACSON A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, a...
BASSEM YOUSSEF Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were fe...
ALAN MOORE What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfie...
EDWARD YOUNG This is good news to us all. We are defending the principle of the right for caricature and satire.
PHILIPPE VAL Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with pe...
RICKY REED If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about....
CARL HIAASEN The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens w...
BASSEM YOUSSEF Bitter the jest when satire comes too near truth and leaves a sharp sting behind it
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS It's not mean-spirited humor, it's just good satire. I go in with my eyes open that they will do wha...
MICHAEL BROWN The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some ki...
DAVID LODGE Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal...
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