Edmund Waller Quotes

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

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

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

It is difficult not to write satire.

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.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

Cartoons are ridicule and satire by definition. A negative attitude is the nature of the art.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

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

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

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.