Peter Medawar Quotes

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

I couldn't stand people writing about me the way I write about politicians.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

The man who cannot laugh is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

It's easy to make jokes about Donald Trump. There is such a difference between what he says and his behavior. It's not 180 degrees off with him. It's some sort of oblique angle.

Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

To me, the funniest American of the Twentieth Century is Richard Nixon because he had the most to hide, and he was so bad at hiding it. To me, that's what's really funny - people who think they're doing a great job of hiding stuff, and it just keeps leaking out.

Don't go see the movies, I'm a troll. I think the movie was great, but their biggest mistake was me.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.

The other day John McCain appeared on the show 'The View,' and one of the hosts accused McCain of being a liar. Yeah, she may have a point, because McCain started the interview by saying, 'Ladies, you look beautiful.'

Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.

And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent." Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

Here comes the pope saying, "Well, that may be true about Cruz, but you build walls, and we Christians don't do that. So you're not a Christian, either." Sometimes all you can do is chuckle. I mean, you need a break from it some. You just can't be intense and wadded up all the time here, folks.

Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.

This is [Joe] Biden's unique way. I mean, here's a guy that never makes a gaffe, right?

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.