Ralph Fiennes Quotes

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

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

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

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

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

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 traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

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.

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

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

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

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.

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 is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

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.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

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