Quotes on Satire

When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.