William Butler Yeats Quotes

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

It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.

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

The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

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.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

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

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

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.

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

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

You're nothing but an apple, a silly t-shirt, a catchphrase and a stupid haircut.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Jokes are grievances.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

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

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.