Satire Quotes - Page 9

• Obviously, I'm a fan of satire. I'd debate anyone, but it would have to be the actual person. That would be my only hesitation about debating Stephen Colbert. If he were playing a character, it wouldn't really work.

  Ann Coulter

  Character, Debate, Hesitation

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Hopefully we have a slightly different vibe, but also East Side is where a lot young people live. It is a really fun, trendy, funky neighborhood, and it is ripe for satire, that area specifically.

  Harry Elfont

  Fun, People, Different

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I would say probably Paris [Hilton]. Because to me that's her in character and she kind was always sort of winking at the camera. There was satire I think involved in what she was doing. I like to think there was.

  Alexa Chung

  Character, Thinking, Paris

  "Alexa Chung Wants to Bring Uggs Back, 2002 Style". Interview with Nikki Ogunnaike, www.elle.com. October 7, 2016.

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• Anyone should be able to express themselves in any context. Obviously, there are arguments against appropriation, but it's one thing when someone is doing something for satire or making fun of a culture, but if they respects the tenets of the culture and they want to be a part of that, what could be more beautiful than that?

  Christian Scott

  Beautiful, Fun, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As for "toothy kindness" - I think all traditions are full of this sort of tough kindness. If someone is on a wrong or dull path, and someone else startles them into awareness of that, then that's a blessing. And the method by which the startle is obtained might be anger, or satire, or an intentionally applied indifference. But that is, of course, a fine line.

  George Saunders

  Kindness, Blessing, Thinking

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.

  Harry Elfont

  Elements, Want, Mary

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. '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

  Religious, Art, Real

  "Salman Rushdie: ‘I Stand With Charlie Hebdo, as We All Must’". blogs.wsj.com. January 07, 2015.

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• A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

  A. O. Scott

  Loyalty, Honesty, Drama

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• The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Eulogy, Married, Poet

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.14

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• The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

  Joseph Addison

  Writing, People, World

  Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.93

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• Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

  Charles Lamb

  Tombstone, Doe, Looks

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.216

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• I think people are attracted to The Huffington Post's blend of up-to-the-second news and thoughtful opinion, delivered with an attitude. Plus, I think they enjoy that we cover so many different things - from politics and entertainment to style and satire. There is always something interesting to read and think about - and even to laugh at.

  Arianna Huffington

  Attitude, Thinking, Thoughtful

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• Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway
  The mind of man, must always make her way;
  Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught,
  Is all her malice worth a single thought.
  The wise have not the will, nor fools the power,
  To stop her headstrong course; within the hour
  Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife
  Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.

  Charles Churchill

  Wise, Men, Giving

  Charles Churchill, “The Author”

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• Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

  Hedda Hopper

  Smart, Successful, Hollywood

  Hedda Hopper (1952). “From under my hat”

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• But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. The pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.

  Jane Porter

  Office, Mind, May

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• I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

  Kristin Hunter

  Thinking, Technique, Sometimes

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• The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Flower, Genius, Human Nature

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• People are always looking for something to hate on. If this is something for them to target and hate on, that's their thing. I look at it as satire.

  Ned Luke

  Hate, People, Target

  Source: www.gq.com

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• These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be the severest possible satire on the acts and words that do. It is the best news that America has ever heard.... How many a man who was lately contemplating suicide has now something to live for!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Suicide, Teaching

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1211, Delphi Classics

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• We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hero, Humorous, Knights

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• There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Clothes, People

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.465, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Society, Purpose

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• Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Littles, Bigs

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist fish in a barrel of coffee.

  Mark Morford

  Coffee, Catholic, Church

  "The end of the wicked old Mormons" by Mark Morford, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.

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• 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!

  Michael Flanders

  Jobs, Comforting, Purpose

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