Satirical Quotes

Satirical Quote of the day

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because we have an audience of people who enjoy it.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

You may be witty, but not satirical.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

Jon Stewart is a dude who grew up in Jersey, hosted the show for 17 years, and created this new way of doing satirical news.

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

10 years ago, I would've host Saturday Night Live. But to me, the show has declined. For some reason, humor isn't what it was. It just, to me, it's not as funny as it was, not as sharply satirical.

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and satirical and full of possibility.

I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.

You cant be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.

I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.

Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.

There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.