88 Satire Quotes for You to Enjoy

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry. David Sedaris

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Social satire has been around since people have been around. David Walliams

Satire People Has-Been Since Around Been Social

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language. Elif Safak

Strength Me Satire Writing Language Humor Longing Own Melancholy Dream About More Attached Both Feel Over Sorrow Years Than Irony Prefer Turkish Realized Much English Connected Each

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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing. Garry Trudeau

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It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire. Harry Anderson

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People keep saying you can't satirize Trump because he's beyond satire, but it's not difficult to just let him out and let him walk upon the stage and say his own words. Howard Jacobson

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I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of turns out to come true, or sometimes it already was true. Jennifer Egan

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it. Jim Backus

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In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule. Joanne Harris

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

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It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge. John Oliver

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'Veep' is a great satire of democracy. Jon Lovett

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I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing. Kristin Gore

Love Satire Writing Comedy

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. Laurence Housman

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Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice. Louis MacNeice

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