Florence King Quotes

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.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

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.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

The more you know, the more you can make fun of

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Jokes are grievances.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

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

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.