1,006 Quotes About Satire

What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie.'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes.'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians off the face of the world with this withering remark.

Have I not told youdinosaurs were past glorythey extinct big time.

Are we looking at each other suspiciously when colour-blind cured.

You're hopeless dumbif you blindly tweet rumours and get ripped on-line.

The misnomer is that satirists are pessimists, or even misanthropes, but usually it is just a way to unlock human potential.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.

...if the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of pure justice, and by this calculation third becomes second, and the first becomes third...