George Crabbe Quotes

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

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

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

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

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.