1,006 Quotes About Satire
- Author Voltaire
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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend- provided of course he really is dead.
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- Author Johnathan Swift
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But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
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- Author Jane Austen
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Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing -- fortifying and bracing -- seemingly just as was wanted -- sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.
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- Author China Miéville
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Were you terrified, Murgatroyd?" Murgatroyd nodded eagerly. "There you go, girl: You're a terrorist. You make me twitchy, and under Article Forty-One of the 2000 Terrorism Bill, that's all I need. Time for some reasonable force, I think.
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- Author Edgar Johnson
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A satirist is never certain whether he/she will be acclaimed or punished.
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- Author Saira Viola
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Kara knew je only recognised t and a on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy pupeeter
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- Author Thomas Heerma van Voss
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Die lange jongen daar is mijn zaakwaarnemer. Hij is speciaal hiervoor overgekomen uit Holland. Daar hebben ze een lange traditie van satirische monologen.
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- Author Paul Krassner
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Irreverence is our only sacred cow.
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- Author Dan Bergstein
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I hope Marcus (giggle) is there. Maybe he can defeat the evil Cullens with his mighty battle cry, "I can see relationships!!!
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