Satiric Quotes & Sayings

All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy. — Kristen Bell

When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression. — Maria Alyokhina

Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer. — Bill Watterson

What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me. — Freddie Prinze

If all the world's a stage, then it's missing a few planks. — John Fogarty

Sunlight sO Right, tRue, strOng, and White — Ahmed

All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world. — George Steiner

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet. — Roque Dalton

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible. — Aaron Johnson

Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so. — George Eliot

A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher. — George Herbert

It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress. — John Forbes Nash

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified. — Thad Cochran

Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality,
Or modest anger of a satiric spirit,
That hurts or wounds the body of a state,
But the sinister application
Of the malicious, ignorant, and base
Interpreter; who will distort and strain
The general scope and purpose of an author
To his particular and private spleen. — Ben Jonson

Body sizes can be remarkable for their variations from accepted norms, but still explain almost nothing about the lives led inside those bodies. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic. — Robert Graves

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence. — Alison Bechdel

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons. — Randall Jarrell

Once a day has begun eventfully, it generally carries on being every bit as lively. — Albert Ehrenstein

Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil. — Don Burr

Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you to soften, can wake you up. — Anne Lamott

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric. — Jonathan Swift

In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy. — Barry Humphries

In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different. — Lisa Cholodenko

Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later. — Paulo Coelho

This is the fiction that I'm referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative. — Hal Duncan

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise. — Carlos Slim

I feel genuinely sorry for those who are so blinded by narrow partisanship that they cannot appreciate Limbaugh's energy, intelligence and satiric skill. They live in a box with bags over their heads. Though he and I hardly agree on politics (I voted for Ralph Nader last year and may go Green again in 2004), I respect Limbaugh as a political analyst and deft rhetorician who is a master of the microphone and who knows how to engage and challenge a vast audience. — Camille Paglia