Quotes for All
If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk. Erica Jong
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. Edwin Percy Whipple
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. Edward Young
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly. Edward Young
What is a miracle?–‘Tis a reproach, ‘Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too. Edward Young
We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his … Read more
Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays. Edmund Waller
I like to write a lot of satire. Earl King
Satire’s nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. E. L. Doctorow