#satire

Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while. ↗

— Christopher Brookmyre

#death #ennui #satire #suburbs #death

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#lesson #parody #satire

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#because #begin #break #deadly #down

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#culture #irish #large #love #part

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#funny-and-random #humor #humorous #satire #wit

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#praise #satire #undeserved

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