#satire

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#satire #shakespeare #humor

Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them... ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#satire #sodomy #men

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#logic #logical-thinking #men #satire #men

Lisa blamed Twilight, and the preconceived notions about men (especially dangerous men) that it tended to form in the impressionable adolescent mind. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#men #satire #twilight #men

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

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine. ↗

— Jerry Zucker

#comedy #earliest #influence #mad #magazine

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire. ↗

— David Zucker

#early #humor #i #i think #most

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#anything #away #freedom #gives #jealous

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that. ↗

— John Cusack

#correct #criticism #get #going #into

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. ↗

— Voltaire

#die #eulogy #lies #literary #literary men