Veronica Roth Quotes

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.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

Satire is focused bitterness.

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.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

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.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

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

Ridicule is more powerful than any argument.

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

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

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.

Half-brights consider it comedy gold to congratulate anyone they dislike for 'winning the Kentucky Derby!' The only thing more bracingly original to not-smart people is: 'Stay classy!'

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.

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 more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

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.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.