Lauren Kate Quotes

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

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

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.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults.

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

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.

You can make fun of everything.

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

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'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

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

One camel does not make fun of another camel's hump.

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

Ridicule is more powerful than any argument.

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.

I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

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.