Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated to notice the difference.
Kerry E. WagnerA man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
G.K. ChestertonThere were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by the existance of a royal family, by the volume of traffic that passed by their house, by the malice of trade unions, by the power of callous employers, by the refusal of the health service to take their condition seriously, by communism, by capitalism, by atheism, by anything, in fact, but their own futile, weak-minded failure to get a fucking grip.
Stephen FryMost men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
Franz KafkaTags: humour satire philosophical
The Prayer of the Middle-Aged Man
Amid the doctors in the Temple at twelve, between mother
Tags: satire philosophical
It was madness to leave without your useless shit. You came in with it, you left with it--that was how it worked. What would you use to clutter a new office with if not your useless shit? We could remember Old Brizz with this box of useless shit, shifting the box from arm to arm as he talked with the building guy. Of course, Old Brizz never had an office again. His useless shit really was useless. He had cause to leave his useless shit behind. But his was a rare case. All things considered, it was better to take your useless shit with you.
Joshua FerrisTags: satire
Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.
William HazlittNow we go in and take over," answered A. "It's our duty to help these people.
Katerina Stoykova KlemerLet Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk,
Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?
Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"
Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,
This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings;
Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,
Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys,
Tags: satire
Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
L.M. MontgomeryTags: mercy satire weakness pity
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