Quotes about Satire
There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.
- Holly Hunter
Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like "Mad Men" is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.
- Jonah Hill
George Eliot makes us share their lives, not in a spirit of condescension or of curiosity, but in a spirit of sympathy. She is no satirist....But she gathers in her large grasp a great bunch of the main elements of human nature and groups them loosely together with a tolerant understanding which, as one finds upon re-reading, has not only kept her figures fresh and free, but has given them an unexpected hold upon our laughter and tears.
- Virginia Woolf
The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot's dread of a newspaper that laughs.
- Mark Twain
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
- Oscar Wilde
I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather
- Oscar Wilde
Humanity takes itself too seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
I want to change my name on Facebook to "Nobody," so when I see someone posting something stupid I can Like their post and it will say "Nobody likes this."
- Anonymous
Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
- Lewis Carroll
As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
- Jay Parini