Charles Lamb Quotes

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

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.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

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

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

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

Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

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

Satire is focused bitterness.

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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

Everything can be satirized.

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.

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