Edward Young Quotes

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

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 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.

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 a lesson, parody is a game.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

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.