Wyndham Lewis Quotes

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 is tragedy plus time.

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

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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.

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

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.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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