Quotes about Satire

George Eliot makes us share their lives, not in a spirit of condescension or of curiosity, but in a spirit of sympathy. She is no satirist....But she gathers in her large grasp a great bunch of the main elements of human nature and groups them loosely together with a tolerant understanding which, as one finds upon re-reading, has not only kept her figures fresh and free, but has given them an unexpected hold upon our laughter and tears.

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot's dread of a newspaper that laughs.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather

Humanity takes itself too seriously.

I want to change my name on Facebook to "Nobody," so when I see someone posting something stupid I can Like their post and it will say "Nobody likes this."

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.

We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

I don't know what humor is.