Satire Quotes

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

Satire doesn't effect change.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

I love 'Glee.' 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 okay to cry.

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

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.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.