SATIRE

Related Subjects: Caricature, Humor, Irony, Mockery, Sarcasm

1. Lampoons and satires, that are written with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.—ADDISON
   

2. 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.—BOILEAU, Satires
   

3. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.—BYRON, English Bards & Scotch Reviewers
   

4. By satire kept in awe, they shrink from
   Ridicule, though not from law.—BYRON
   

5. True satire is not the sneering substance that we know, but satire that includes the satirist.—FRANK M. COLBY, Essays
   

6. Of a bitter satirist—Swift, for instance—it might be said, that the person or thing on which his satire fell shrivelled up as if the devil had spit on it.—HAWTHORNE
   

7. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
   To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.—HORACE
   

8. In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.—JUVENAL
   

9. Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel?
   Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?—POPE, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
   

10. Satires run faster than panegyrics.—Proverb
    

11. Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for the reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.—SWIFT
    

12. It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.—SWIFT
    

13. Satire! thou shining supplement of public laws.—EDWARD YOUNG