Quotes about Satire

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

I love irony.

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

Treating war as farce is one way soldiers deal with it.

I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a 'sociopath.'

In this country, the people who affect things the most—how the rest of us think and feel—are comics. It's true. Because a comic needs to understand the big picture in order to fracture it and present it to people so they can see it more clearly. Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

As, in the serious style, Homer is pre-eminent among poets, for he alone combined dramatic form with excellence of imitation, so he too first laid down the main lines of Comedy, by dramatising the ludicrous instead of writing personal satire.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.