1,006 Quotes About Satire

Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

There are worse things than eating the dead, my dear fellow. Far worse things. There is, for instance, making a huge profit out of their funeral, which is the normal custom in the civilized world.

World opinion, though sharply divided on nuclear tests and the risk of atmospheric pollution, could congratulate itself on being united in its opposition to cannibalism. No country in the world was prepared to support the custom of eating the dead, though the right of governments to kill people, individually or by hundreds of thousands, was not questioned for a moment.

I know a lie when I hear one.

[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament,

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.

I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.