Quotes on Satire

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”

George Orwell

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”

Matt Groening

“Invisible things are the only realities.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”

William Makepeace Thackeray

“Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.”

Gary Larson

“Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.”

Ambrose Bierce

“Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.”

George Orwell

“Even ivory towers need central heating.”

Breyten Breytenbach

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

Journalism is about covering important stories — with a pillow, until they stop moving.

George F Will

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin