1,006 Quotes About Satire

That night it was difficult to sleep because an armored car was patrolling on our roof and checking the documents of the cats which always prowl there. I was told that only one cat had his papers on him but he too was arrested. After all, an ordinary car carrying authentic personal documents is enough to arouse justified suspicion.

Yeah sure, have a few sweets or a fizzy drink, but don't buy a bucket of pick and mix, an extra large sundae, and a vessel of chemically enhanced liquid, and then complain that we're not only making you fat, but we're robbing you blind as well!

Ya, inilah susahnya. Negeri ini tidak punya ahli matematika. Dan kalau punya, mereka toh tidak laku dalam dunia korup di negeri ini. Dari penyelidikan Anda, apakah tampak ada kesengajaan di dalam kebodohan ini?

That of all the 'oracies (aristocracy and democracy included) hypocrisy is the most flourishing.

Never take life too seriously, you're never getting out of it alive.

That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?''Yes' Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a plop of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it.'Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.

The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers.

Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.

Yeah. Of course I can do simple math. I graduated high school, ya know.”“What an accomplishment. No one has ever done that before.