Satirical Critique Quotes

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful - the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards - going after them. We shouldn't be attacking the vulnerable.

I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world.

There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions.

The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.