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• Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

  Alexander Pope

  Literature, Praise, Disguise

  William Lisle Bowles, Alexander Pope (1820). “A reply to an "Unsentimental sort of critic,": the reviewer of "Spence's Anecdotes" in the Quarterly review for October [i.e. July] 1820; otherwise to a certain critic and grocer, the family of the Bowleses!!”, p.15

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

  Yahoo Serious

  Hollywood, Horrible

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Glee, Watches

  "A life in writing: David Sedaris". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

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

  Dario Fo

  Enjoy, Humour, Hard

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• Satire is the disease of art.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Art, Disease

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

  Tracey Ullman

  Political, Surface, Wanted

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• In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

  Horace

  Writing, Apology, Thinking

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• Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

  Anita Brookner

  Strong, Belief, Wounded

  1989 In The Spectator, 23 Mar.

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

  Carroll O'Connor

  Hated, Shows, Savvy

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• One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Men, One Man, Pointlessness

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• You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Thinking, Style, Scandalous

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• Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Use, Too Much

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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• Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Ducks, Example

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• By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Lonely, Sarcasm, Rights

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• In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

  George Crabbe

  Grieving, Men, Perceive

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.127

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• Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

  George S. Kaufman

  Night, Saturday Night, Saturday

  "The House of Blue Leaves: Review" by David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 25, 2011.

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• On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Anniversary, 4th Of July

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jul 05, 2012

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• On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Heart, Land

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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• Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Wish, Forget, Conscience

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.68

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  ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

  Salman Rushdie

  Inspirational, Life, Ideas

  "Salman Rushdie Voices Support for Charlie Hebdo After Paris Shooting". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• 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.

  Imogene Coca

  Butterfly, People, Comedian

  "1950's TV Star Imogene Coca Dies at 92" by Donna Tommelleo, abcnews.go.com.

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• It is difficult not to write satire.

  Juvenal

  Writing, Difficult

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.204

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• When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

  Jonathan Swift

  Dunces

  Jonathan Swift, John Mitford (1854). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift: With a Life”, p.168

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• Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Games, Lessons, Parody

  1967 Interview in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, Spring.

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• What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Deception, Needs, Irreverence

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