1,006 Quotes About Satire

Mabel's parents had said that it was bigotry dressed up to look like science.

Apparently in relationships when arguing with women one ought to take notes in order to revisit the minutes of the previous argument in future disputes.

I write between the lines but then I write only one line.

Un animalucho con un bonete en la cabeza, que cortando el hilo a todos los filósofos dijo que el sabía el secreto, y se hallaba en la Suma de Santo Tomas; y mirando de pies a cabeza a los dos moradores celestes, les sustentó que sus personas, sus mundos y sus estrellas habían sido creados para el hombre. Al oír tal sandez, nuestros dos caminantes hubieron de caerse uno sobre el otro pareciéndose de una risa inextinguible.

...un animalucho con un bonete en la cabeza, que cortando el hilo a todos los filósofos dijo que el sabía el secreto, y se hallaba en la Suma de Santo Tomas; y mirando de pies a cabeza a los dos moradores celestes, les sustentó que sus personas, sus mundos y sus estrellas habían sido creados para el hombre. Al oír tal sandez, nuestros dos caminantes hubieron de caerse uno sobre el otro pareciéndose de una risa inextinguible.

Glory to the unwakeable.

You can't let these things eat you up every sing night. You can't keep resurrecting every morning to go back and take the same damage over again. You have to say, 'Today is the last day I will die for this,' You have to take control back from the things that will otherwise mean destruction for you.

There is an African fly that lays its eggs in the jelly of children's eyes, the hatching larvae blinding them by feeding on the eye itself. But the fly has no quarrel with the child. It is merely following its nature.Likewise, Boris Johnson, a vile grub laying his horrible eggs in the soft jelly of the EU debate, has no agenda beyond his own advancement. He believes in nothing, and neither does his spiritual soulmate, the eye-scoffing African fly.

Defining offence is so complicated. That's why it was thoughtful of the Telegraph to publish an actual graph of the angle of Corbyn's bow. The existence of a literal calibration of offence relieves us of the obligation of understanding complicating factors like context, intent or the agenda of the observer. Corbyn's bow was undeniably offensive because it fell outside the mathematical parameters of inoffensive bowing.