Lilith Saintcrow Quotes

Everything can be satirized.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

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

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

Satire is focused bitterness.

No subject is unsuitable for 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.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

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

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.