Satire Quotes - Page 3

• Los elogios inmerecidos son una sátira disfrazada.

  Alexander Pope

  Literature, Praise, Disguise

  William Lisle Bowles, Alexander Pope (1820). “A reply to an "Unsentimental sort of critic,": the reviewer of "Spence's Anecdotes" in the Quarterly review for October [i.e. July] 1820; otherwise to a certain critic and grocer, the family of the Bowleses!!”, p.15

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• Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

  Yahoo Grave

  Hollywood, Horrible

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Glee, Watches

  "A life in writing: David Sedaris". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

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• It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

  Dario Fo

  Enjoy, Humour, Hard

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• Satire is the disease of art.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Art, Disease

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• I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

  Tracey Ullman

  Political, Surface, Wanted

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• In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

  Horace

  Escribir, disculparse, pensar

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• Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

  Anita Brookner

  Strong, Belief, Wounded

  1989 In The Spectator, 23 Mar.

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• Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Hated, Shows, Savvy

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• One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Men, One Man, Pointlessness

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• You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Thinking, Style, Scandalous

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• La sátira es a la vez la más agradable y la más peligrosa de las cualidades mentales. Siempre agrada cuando es refinada, pero siempre tememos a aquellos que la usan demasiado; sin embargo, la sátira debe permitirse cuando no está mezclada con rencor, y cuando la persona satirizada puede unirse a la sátira.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Use, Too Much

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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• Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Ducks, Example

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• By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Lonely, Sarcasm, Rights

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• In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

  George Crabbe

  Grieving, Men, Perceive

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.127

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• Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

  George S. Kaufman

  Night, Saturday Night, Saturday

  "The House of Blue Leaves: Review" by David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 25, 2011.

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• El 4 th Of July celebramos el gobierno del pueblo, por el pueblo y para el pueblo, o como se llaman ahora, las corporaciones.

  Andy Borowitz

  Divertido, Aniversario, 4 th Of July

  Facebook post by Andy Borowitz from Jul 05, 2012

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• Algún día grande y glorioso, el pueblo llano de la tierra alcanzará por fin el deseo de su corazón, y la Casa Blanca será adornada por un imbécil redomado.

  H. L. Mencken

  Divertido, Corazón, Tierra

  The Baltimore Sun, 26 th Of July de 1920.

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• Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Condesa de Blessington

  Wish, Forget, Conscience

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.68

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• 

  El "respeto a la religión" se ha convertido en una frase clave que significa "miedo a la religión". Las religiones, como todas las demás ideas, merecen crítica, sátira y, sí, nuestra intrépida falta de respeto.

  Salman Rushdie

  Inspirational, Life, Ideas

  "Salman Rushdie Voices Support for Charlie Hebdo After Paris Shooting". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• El problema con la mayoría de los cómicos que intentan hacer sátira es que son esencialmente gente descarada, ruidosa y poco delicada que tiene que utilizar un mazo para aplastar una mariposa.

  Imogene Coca

  Mariposa, Gente, Cómico

  "Muere a los 92 años Imogene Coca, estrella de la televisión de los años 50", por Donna Tommelleo, abcnews.go.com.

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• It is difficult not to write satire.

  Juvenal

  Writing, Difficult

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.204

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• When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

  Jonathan Swift

  Dunces

  Jonathan Swift, John Mitford (1854). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift: With a Life”, p.168

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• La sátira es una lección, la parodia es un juego.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Games, Lessons, Parody

  1967 Interview in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, Spring.

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• Lo que necesitamos es un renacimiento de la sátira, de la disidencia, de la irreverencia, de una insistencia inflexible en que la falsedad es falsa y los tópicos son tópicos.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Deception, Needs, Irreverence

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