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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT, preface, The Battle of the Books
- But satire, ever moral, ever new,
- Delights the reader and instructs him, too.
- She, if good sense refine her sterling page,
- Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX, Satires
There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.
P.J. O'ROURKE, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV, Wisconson Studies in Contemporary Literature, Spring 1967
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view ... hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
PAUL KLEE, The Diaries of Paul Klee
It is difficult not to write satire.
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