Quotes about Satire

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He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. — P.G. Wodehouse

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. — George Orwell, Animal Farm

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the p — Martin Amis

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. — Matt Groening

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", Ma — Voltaire

Invisible things are the only realities. — Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after puttin — P.G. Wodehouse, The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never b — Stephen Colbert, I Am America

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or m — Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes. — Stephen Colbert, I Am America

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? — William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion. — Gary Larson, The Complete Far Side, 1980–1994

Dearest creature in creation,Study English pronunciation.I will teach you in my verseSounds like corpse, corps, horse, a — Gerard Nolst Trenité, Drop your Foreign Accent

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health. — Edgar Allan Poe, Ne Pariez Jamais Votre Tête Au Diable Et Autres Contes Non Traduits Par Baudelaire

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell, Animal Farm

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of rid — E.L. Doctorow

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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