Satire Quotes

“It is a pretty mocking of the life.”

“Satire is what closes on Saturday night.”

“Difficile est satiram non scribere.”

“Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.”

“Satire well applied, is the medicine of the mind.”

“A good satirist never pauses to worry about angering the citizenry.”

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“Satire, by being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.”

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

“Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck and tilt at all I meet.”

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

“La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'éloge ment après leur mort.”

“Satire is a kind of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.”

“There are, to whom my satire seems too bold;
Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,
And something said of Chartres much too rough.”

“Why should we fear; and what? The laws?
They all are armed in virtue's cause;
And aiming at the self-same end,
Satire is always virtue's friend.”

“I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
To each affronting sot I meet, the word
Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,
And pointed satire runs him through and through.”

“Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;
The rage but not the talent to abuse.”

“Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;
He hides behind a magisterial air
His own offences, and strips others' bare.”

“Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.”