#satire

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#because #better #better place #boiling #comes

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#comedy #good #ripe #satire #status

-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 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

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

— Yahoo Serious

#beyond #first #journey #just #movie

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #letters #love-and-friendship #loyalty #pen-pals

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#satire #education

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#expression #face #life #satire #life

They see nothing indecent in sexual intercourse, whether heterosexual or homosexual, and indulge in it quite openly, in full view of everyone. The only exception was Socrates, who was always swearing that his relations with young men were purely Platonic, but nobody believed him for a moment, and Hyacinthus and Narcissus gave first-hand evidence to the contrary. ↗

— Lucian of Samosata

#satire #love