Dorothy Parker Quotes

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

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

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

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

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.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

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.

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

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 don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot help but laugh.

Ridicule is more powerful than any argument.

We make fun of our leaders.

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

I look at people, and I like to laugh at them.

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

We've got to stop this making fun of guys. I think part of it's to protect [Barack] Obama, because he's the one that's well known for that.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

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

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

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.