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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.


Quintilian

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SAMUEL SMILES Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
SAMUEL SMILES 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 It's satire – it's my own twisted sense of humor, The Wizard of Oz.
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FLORENCE KING Satire is focused bitterness.
LEO ROSTEN A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.
DARIO FO The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.
STEPHEN RICHARDS The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satir...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE In expressing so completely his own type, Mr. Yeats presents us with the case for integrity. If we c...
AUSTIN CLARKE 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 Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Virtue is indeed its own reward. [Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide...
J.K. ROWLING It is difficult not to write satire.
JUVENAL Satire is what closes on Saturday night.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
ANGELA CARTER Whatever nature does, is entirely in your benefit. It keeps striking away at your faults. If the sta...
DADA BHAGWAN I know my own heart to be entirely English.
PRINCESS ANNE The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and ver...
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ISAAC HAYES In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work...
OCTAVIO PAZ Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
YAHOO SERIOUS It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
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MAX WEBBER At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a po...
THOMAS MERTON There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and ...
ISAAC HAYES It's a satire!
MARC CHERRY What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they'v...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Satire is particularly valuable in a country like ours.
DAN RATHER When we allow our hands and our minds to wither in our efforts to control our own habits, our own hu...
GENE CRAWFORD When television producers say it is the parents' obligation to keep children away from the tube, the...
GREGG EASTERBROOK Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hi...
WILLIAM COWPER 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 Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.
DAVID LEVITHAN I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present...
K. FLAY The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization is entirely with ourselves.
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN The critics try to intellectualize my materiel. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that...
ANDY KAUFMAN Faith itself has no merit; in fact, by its nature it is self-emptying. It involves our complete renu...
JERRY BRIDGES Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
CRAND BRITON In times like these it is difficult not to write satire
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MOLLY IVINS Supporting God's Scriptural ability to give or restrain man's desires, Jerry Bridges points to an am...
JERRY BRIDGES Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there i...
BEN NICHOLSON Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;
He ...
WILLIAM COWPER A body so poetic, every curve is a verse.
ELLA DECEMBER If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse ...
ROBERT MORGAN Praise undeserved s satire in disguise.
HENRY BROADHURST It's meant to be satire, farce.
TORY DOBRIN The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
SOURCE UNKNOWN That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
MARY ASTELL If there is true ‘Selfishness,’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is o...
DADA BHAGWAN If grass is greener on the other side, why wait at this side of the fence?
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DAVID IVES It is the logic of our times,No subject for immortal verse-That we who lived by honest dreamsDefend ...
C. DAY LEWIS It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) It is a satire of the first family, so I certainly studied her.
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ERWIN SCHRöDINGER I think it was intended as satire.
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LIONEL SHRIVER Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they translate Into their own language, ...
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RICHARD CAREW Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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EARL KING This has a lot of satire in it.
KATHERINE HOUGH While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIAN For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather t...
QUINTILIAN For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIAN That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIAN Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIAN It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIAN For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather t...
QUINTILIAN For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIAN That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIAN Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIAN It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
QUINTILIAN A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
QUINTILIAN The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body...
QUINTILIAN Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QUINTILIAN We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QUINTILIAN It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at time...
QUINTILIAN The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is ...
QUINTILIAN It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
QUINTILIAN Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies...
QUINTILIAN Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
QUINTILIAN The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QUINTILIAN Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIAN While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
QUINTILIAN In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIAN We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
QUINTILIAN A liar should have a good memory.
QUINTILIAN That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
QUINTILIAN Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QUINTILIAN When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
QUINTILIAN God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no chara...
QUINTILIAN Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barr...
QUINTILIAN Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies ...
QUINTILIAN Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
QUINTILIAN When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QUINTILIAN The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIAN That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
QUINTILIAN Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIAN Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QUINTILIAN It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
QUINTILIAN Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
QUINTILIAN A liar should have a good memory
QUINTILIAN That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency
QUINTILIAN While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin
QUINTILIAN Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIAN Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
QUINTILIAN Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
QUINTILIAN As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict ...
QUINTILIAN The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
QUINTILIAN We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus seg...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et S...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you re...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim,...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. [Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus v...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. [Lat., Deficit omne quod nascitur.]
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserar...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick h...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in th...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and prec...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [Lat., Etiam singulor...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather ...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body...
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN