Quotes about Satire
We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.
- Mark Driscoll
It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from.
- Tony Hale
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
- William Hazlitt
I don't know what humor is.
- Will Rogers
That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
- Mark Twain
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Erica Jong
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.
- Mark Twain
Remember the stories you used to write? About that billionaire. You made fun of his fingers! Woo-hooo. 'Short-fingered vulgarian,' you called him.
- Candace Bushnell
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,"I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."
- GK Chesterton
There's nothing more I love than McDonald's dollar menu. With just the change I find between my couch cushions, I can eat something with the nutritional value of a couch cushion.
- Stephen Colbert
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
- Mark Twain
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
- Mark Twain