#satire

In Chestnut Hill money didn't talk, but it drank, and played a lot of golf. ↗

#dark-comedy #great-dialogue #humor #quirky-characters #social-satire

...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#college-degree #credentials #degree #funny #humor

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. ↗

— George Orwell

#political-satire #quthoritarianism #russian-revolution #virtue

The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle! ↗

— James Finn Garner

#emeror-s-new-clothes #emperor #fairytales #humour #politically-correct

With him big Phil from Notting Hill an old "face" from the sixties a pin up gangster with a "mars bar" weal scraping his left cheek and of course two "wag" slags in tow trussed up like French Poodles with "Bratz babe" stares and Gucci Handbags ↗

— Saira Viola

#crime #humour #post-modern #satire #satire

If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it! ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#satire #t-fyrr #satire

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards? ↗

— Dan Brown

#satire

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#satire #satire

Even ivory towers need central heating. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#new-york-times-review #poetry #satire #satire

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE ↗