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Invisible things are the only realities. — Edgar Allan Poe

Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion. — Gary Larson

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire. — Franklin P. Adams

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge. — John Oliver

Wisdom is unlearning what you have learnt. — Amit Abraham

Everything you're telling me was just a story, and now it's real. — Kathy Bryson

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. — Ambrose Bierce

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims. — Benjamin Disraeli

By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.
(Joshua Malina, Sports Night) — Aaron Sorkin

Incidentally, it's easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people. — Franz Kafka

Perhaps there's an innate human emotion inside us all that when we are presented with something we don't understand, we immediately want to kill it. — Todd Berger

Excerpt from Magel's Daughter:
"I think we're all like the lutefisk, steeped in poison, and then we try to clean it up for Christmas. — Nancy Baker

People keep making excuses, that's why everthing happens for a reason. — Roy Saputra

Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction. — Ambrose Bierce

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species. — Penelope Gilliatt

I like the pooch. When I've had a dog's snout in my mouth, we tend to develop a special bond. — Randy Quarles

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? — Alexander Pope

Don't pinch that guy's ass. He's a leprechaun. — Kathy Bryson

What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist. — Aasif Mandvi

Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see. — Paul Christensen

Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter's day. — St John Morris

Nick sat alone reading a copy of The Independent . Cocaine socialists were trying their hardest to juice up Britain's economy with super casinos — Saira Viola

Were the stars against him? A woman's fingers are quicker in the sky and shine more brightly. — Graham Spaid

She wore an A-line bridal gown with a V-shaped neckline while Apollo playing Bach's Air on the G string. — Tai

Paul, there is something very slack about a future that will take a biting satire for a vapid dream. — R.A. Lafferty

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake. — Samuel Richardson

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy. — Robert Gottlieb

The madrigore of verjuice must be talthibianised. — C.S. Lewis

-"He loved her ... It was noble of him. It was beautiful."
-"It was stupid. — Lloyd Alexander

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. — Robin Williams

You little prick. It's a whelk ... it's a ... it's a ... dead whelk! — St John Morris

Now we go in and take over," answered A. "It's our duty to help these people. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex. — Norm MacDonald

One way to drive home the futility and evil of war is to tap the distancing power of satire. — Steven Pinker

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. — Ben Nicholson

The real satire starts when I'm shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked. — Munia Khan

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. — Ambrose Bierce

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job. — Garry Trudeau

Your toaster's a puff. — St John Morris

That's not a religion, that's Pokemon. — Stephen Colbert

What do writers look like? — Graham Spaid

Heaven wouldn't be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo. — Joe LaFlam

Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python. — Alice Cooper

An avalanche is just a snowflake that got pissed off. — Andi James Chamberlain

A good joke doesn't necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one's own deserving jokes. — Pawan Mishra

It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?

That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes. — Patrick Bryant

I write humor as it's pretty much the only thing keeping me out of an asylum. — Bonnie Daly

The only candidate I'd allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we're talking about foraging for squirrels, he's notoriously apolitical. — Greg Gutfeld

Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you.
[Love's Last Shift] — Colley Cibber

Grabbing someone's ass doesn't count as capturing them! — Kathy Bryson

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes. — Stephen Colbert

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up. — Paul Krassner

Obama's plan for "change": Let's do everything Bush did, only with more suck! Because it just didn't suck badly enough the first time! — Michel Templet

Hollywood is horrible ... it's beyond satire. — Yahoo Serious

Satire is what closes on Saturday night. — George S. Kaufman

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first! — Susan Kay

A fig for those by law protected!
Liberty's a glorious feast!
Courts for cowards were erected,
Churches built to please the priest! — Robert Burns

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another. — Aleister Crowley

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. — Madame Roland

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy. — Bo Burnham

To take away a man's sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms. — Nile Rodgers

To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy. — Edwin A. Abbott

All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what causes dew. — Stephen Colbert

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

What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006] — Salman Rushdie

A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause. — Tom Morrison

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. — Voltaire

No, I say, it's fine.
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
Just great, I say. Really. — Chuck Palahniuk

to leaders - people are emotional and you can take them for a ride as long as they continue to be gullible — Anno Nomius

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet. — Alexander Pope

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson

An evergreen flower is never scared of the upcoming fall. — Faramarz Ashenai Ghasemi

Not every single way of saying the right thing is right. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Human Millipede 6 was the highest-grossing movie of the summer and returned Nicholas Cage to Oscar-winning status. — C.Z. Hazard

Are we looking at
each other suspiciously
when colour-blind cured. — Ibnu Din Assingkiri

The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place. — George Herman

Some people respect some people only because some people respect them. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Are you trying to seduce me or trick me? — Kathy Bryson

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public. — Frank Zappa

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. — Alexander Pope

Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Laughter is the best medicine — Chase Soundly

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on
that is, badly. — George Orwell

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism. — Criss Jami

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.

-Description of Doomsday — Stanley Elkin

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Because I want to have sex with him
and because that's sinful
I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny. — Jess C. Scott

If girls could spit venom, it'd be through their eyes. — S.D. Lawendowski

To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me. — Jon Stewart

Life's a crapshoot, Sam. At least you filled the cheap seats. — Robert Bruce Cormack

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it. — Malcolm Bradbury

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work. — David Shrigley

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended. — John Dryden

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? — William Makepeace Thackeray

Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them ... — Aleister Crowley

You are either on Wall Street or you're a bum and there's nothing in between. — Katya G. Cohen

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. — Jonathan Swift

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. — Edward Young