Satire Quotes

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.

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Satire is focused bitterness.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

It is difficult not to write satire.

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.