Satire Quotes - Page 6

• La sátira es un arte que se practica mejor a espaldas del objetivo previsto. Creo que invitar a políticos a un programa satírico se convierte en una gran trampa. Porque una de dos cosas suceden: O tienes que dejar de afilar tus colmillos porque no puedes ser tan cruel con la gente a la cara como lo eres a sus espaldas... ...y esos invitados se enteran y dejan de venir.

  Harry Shearer

  Arte, Pensamiento, Dos

  "Cómo Harry Shearer descubrió el alma de Richard Nixon". Entrevista con David Corn, www.motherjones.com. 17 de octubre de 2014.

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• Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and everyone else should be incinerated. They don't know right from wrong. That's what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny.

  Mel Brooks

  Government, Organization, Troops

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• It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.

  Pamela Geller

  Freedom, America, Speech

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• Incluso la sátira es una forma de simpatía. Es la forma en que nuestra simpatía fluye y retrocede lo que realmente determina nuestras vidas. Y aquí radica la enorme importancia de la novela, bien manejada. Puede informar y llevar a nuevos lugares nuestra simpatía que se aleja en retroceso de las cosas muertas. Por lo tanto, la novela, bien manejada, puede revelar los lugares más secretos de la vida: porque son los lugares pasionales secretos de la vida, sobre todo, los que la marea de la conciencia sensible necesita para refluir y fluir, limpiando y refrescando.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Simpatía, Mentir, Flujo y reflujo

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). "Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'", p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• Hemos entrado en un periodo de intolerancia que se combina, como ocurre a veces en América, con un azucarado gusto por el eufemismo. Esta conjunción propicia acontecimientos que van más allá del sueño más descabellado de la sátira -si es que la sátira existiera ya en América; quizá la razón de su debilidad sea que la realidad la ha superado.

  Robert Hughes

  Dream, Reality, America

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• 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

  Art, Expression, Diverse Society

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.84, Penguin

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• Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

  Karl Kraus

  Fleeing, Arise, Objects

  Karl Kraus (1976). "Verdades a medias y verdades y media: Aforismos escogidos"

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• Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

  Jeremy Collier

  Character, Looks, Flattery

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• La forma moderna de las cosas había empezado a atraerme, también (como material para la sátira) la política, y las vidas de los grandes y pequeños, en lo alto de la escala social.

  Laurence Housman

  Littles, Modern, Social

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• THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money - that crazy-making business - to examine a whole range of subjects.

  Craig Lucas

  Crazy, Real, Play

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• When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

  Kevin Kline

  Real, Creer, Carácter

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• Okay well - no that is a very real thing seven-year-olds asking for BlackBerrys and cell phones and things like that. And that's one of the things I love most about the show [The Starter Wife] is the social satire.

  Debra Messing

  Real, Teléfonos, Células

  Fuente: www.movieweb.com

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• People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

  Margaret Cho

  Race, People, Political

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• When scandal has new-minted an old lie,
  Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply,
  'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears
  Gathering around it with erected ears;
  A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd,
  Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud,
  Just as the sapience of an author's brain,
  Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.

  William Cowper

  Lying, Names, Brain

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.124

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• La sátira de la sátira tiende a autocancelarse, y las tácticas de choque deliberadas pierden pronto su capacidad de escandalizar, sobre todo cuando son demasiado deliberadas.

  Herb Caen

  Self, Tactics, Shock

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• Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

  Edward Young

  Splinters, Fame, Recoil

  Edward Young, Sir Herbert Croft, Sir Herbert Croft (5th bart), Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young ...”, p.222

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• What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

  Edward Young

  Miracle, Mankind, Reproach

  Edward Young (1839). “Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job”, p.228

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• En lo alto, las santidades de las estrellas brillan eternamente... vertiendo sátira sobre los pomposos negocios del día que cierran, y haciendo que las generaciones de los hombres se muestren leves y evanescentes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Men, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.30, North Atlantic Books

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• Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Inspiration, Different, Facts

  "Writers on Writing, Carl Hiaasen: Real Life, That Bizarre and Brazen Plagiarist" by Carl Hiaasen, archive.nytimes.com. April 24, 2000.

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• De todas las deudas, los hombres son los menos dispuestos a pagar sus impuestos; qué sátira del gobierno.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hombres, Deuda, Pagar

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• The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.

  Tom Lehrer

  Canción, Real, Escritura

  Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

  William Styron

  William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.609, Random House

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• It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet. When I put "Elected" out, it was definitely a satire... "Alice Cooper for President"... when everybody realized I was running against Nixon, you known, even on a joke level, I think I got a lot of write-in votes.

  Alice Cooper

  Correr, escribir, pensar

  "Snakes on a Tour". "Kingsnake" podcast Interview, club.kingsnake.com. May 23, 2006.

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• Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

  Alice Cooper

  Python, Beats, Stills

  Entrevista con Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. 28 de noviembre de 2003.

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• Cuando se ve una cultura en la que los arquitectos intelectuales de la invasión no son avergonzados por su comportamiento, sino recompensados dentro de la cultura mediática dominante, la comedia negra, la sátira, el absurdo son la única respuesta.

  John Cusack

  Medios, Negro, Intelectual

  "Hablando con John Cusack". Entrevista en The Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com. 20 de junio de 2008.

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