Satire Quotes

Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.

~ Tom Morrison

Charm is an elusive quality. Some have it; no teacher can afford to be without it. Teachers who lack charm must resort to violence.”“How much more dignified to retire from the world rather than wait for the world to tire of you.”“Reform, like gender, is a concept in constant need of reinvention.

~ Hugh Mahoney

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

~ Jane Austen

I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigaret butt. I picked it up without shame, lit it as I stood with one foot in the gutter, puffed it and exhaled toward the stars. I was an American, and goddamn proud of it.

~ John Fante

Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being interrupted, by intruding and disagreeable Visistors, as Augustus and Sophia had on their first Entrance in the Neighbourhood, taken due care to inform the surrounding Families, that as their happiness centered wholly in themselves, they wished for no other society.

~ Jane Austen

The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.

~ Michelle Templet

They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Jersey Shore has killed more brain cells than alcohol, cocaine, and meth combined.

~ Michelle Templet

Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.

~ Michelle Templet

Obama's plan for change: Let's do everything Bush did, only with more suck! Because it just didn't suck badly enough the first time!

~ Michelle Templet

F***ing triffids.

~ Scott B. Pruden

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

~ Bill Cosby

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

~ Henry Selick

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

~ Graydon Carter

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

~ Robin Williams

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.

~ Ben Nicholson

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

~ Tom Lehrer

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

~ Tom Lehrer