Best 636 quotes in «satire quotes» category

Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).

Your toaster’s a puff.

You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.

You want to stay here and sleep your life away? That's it?" "If you knew what would make you happy, wouldn't you do it?" I asked her. "See, you do want to be happy. Then why did you tell me that being happy is dumb?" she asked. "You said that to me more than once." "Let me be dumb," I said, glugging the NyQuil. "You go be smart and tell me how great it is. I'll be here, hibernating." Reva rolled her eyes. "It's natural," I told her. "People used to hibernate all the time." "People never hibernated. Where are you getting this?" She could look really pathetic when she was outraged. She got up and stood there holding her stupid knockoff Kate Spade bag or whatever it was, her hair pulled back into a ponytail and crowned with a useless, plastic, tortoiseshell headband. She was always getting her hair blown out, her eyebrows waxed into thin, arched, parentheses, her fingernails painted various shades of pink and purple, as though all of this made her a wonderful person. "It's not up for discussion, Reva. This is what I'm doing. If you can't accept it, then you don't have to.

You wanna know why the world is f**ked? This is why, this is exactly why…right here. Get a pen, write this down, this is important…The world is f**ked up because I eat WonderBread preserved with formaldehyde that lasts three weeks and will never grow mold as long as it’s kept in its magic silver bag. The world is f**ked up because I know my cans of tuna have mercury in it. The world is f**ked up because I know my flake light tuna and WonderBread are poisonous, yet I still eat them!

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up. But the deeper thing is that I just find these people so impressive and admirable.

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

life becomes satire in real time, what good is the premiere satire magazine? It might as well just be the newspaper. You could pick up The Wall Street Journal and be like, "Oh, what a funny Onion headline!" And then the editor of The Onion is like, "Huh. I guess you won't be needing me anymore.

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

Added to the crazy legends was a collection of essays called: “Gazpacho for My Mother: Tales of Tritesza and Sorrow,” in which Fergus declared and adored the hair-raising fits of anguish, sadness and self-absorption he experienced as a Hispanic person of mostly non-Hispanic origin.

A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest!

The biggest problem I had with starring in Scrubs were the black doctors. I just had to keep telling myself this show was satire.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

A delightfully droll look at how the other half lives from a pet pooch's point of view.

A first edition of Peter Pan appeared gift-wrapped on my bed - Lucy admitted that Asher had drafted her to help deliver that present.

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opinion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by accepting any proposals of reconciliation that might be offered them by their Fathers – to their farther trial of their noble independence however they never were exposed.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word count up. Of course, just because Jesus replaces the Old Testament doesn't mean that you should necessarily skip it. That would be like skipping Batman and Robin just because the story starts over in Batman Begins. The important thing to realize is that both the old and new stories are about an all-powerful being trying to rid the world of evildoers, only in the new one The Batman can eat pork.