Quotes about Satire

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

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

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,"I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

There's nothing more I love than McDonald's dollar menu. With just the change I find between my couch cushions, I can eat something with the nutritional value of a couch cushion.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

In this country, the people who affect things the most—how the rest of us think and feel—are comics. It's true. Because a comic needs to understand the big picture in order to fracture it and present it to people so they can see it more clearly. Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

As, in the serious style, Homer is pre-eminent among poets, for he alone combined dramatic form with excellence of imitation, so he too first laid down the main lines of Comedy, by dramatising the ludicrous instead of writing personal satire.