Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

Lenny Bruce

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Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you."

[Love's Last Shift]

Colley Cibber

Tags: humor satire entertainment comedy whores dinner



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Oh well," McWatt sang, "what the hell.

Joseph Heller

Tags: satire



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The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

Martin Amis

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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

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He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime to fight, Landsman tears around Sitka like a man with his pant leg caught on a rocket. It's like there's a film score playing behind him, heavy on the castanets. The problem comes in the hours when he isn't working, when his thoughts start blowing out the open window of his brain like pages from the blotter. Sometimes it takes a heavy paperweight to pin them down.

Michael Chabon

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He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

P.G. Wodehouse

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I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to seek it out.

Thomas James Higgins

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift

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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

Anton Chekhov

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