#satire

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

— Tracey Ullman

#i #me #never #political #satire

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. ↗

— Quintilian

#indeed #our #own #satire #verse

Satire is what closes on Saturday night. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

#night #satire #saturday #saturday night

I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it's of no importance to me, who put us here on earth to do our duty as citizens and fathers; but I don't need to go to church and kiss silver platters and dig into my pocket to fatten up a lot of humbugs who eat better than you or I do! Because he can be worshiped just as well in a wood, a field, or even just gazing at the ethereal vault, like the ancients. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#religion #satire #religion

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

— Yahoo Serious

#hollywood #horrible #satire

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

#because #cry #feel #glee #i

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#beyond #first #journey #just #movie

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#everybody #face #generally #glass #own

I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others. ↗

— Mike Corbett

#demons #heaven #hell #intelligent-humor #politics

I replied that England (the dear place of my nativity) was computed to produce three times the quantity of food, more than its inhabitants are able to consume, ... But, in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of the males, and the vanity of the females, we sent away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries, from whence in return we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves. Hence it follows of necessity that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, forswearing, flattering, suborning, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, freethinking, ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#food