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  • If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

    Writing   Realist   Ifs  
    "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.
  • The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

    Home   Views   World  
    Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.280, Penguin
  • I'm glad to be able to announce that the UK now has it's very own mindless twit. || Either that or he's a damn good satirist.

    Able   Twits   Damn  
  • In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free expression around the world.

    "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.
  • The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

    Fun   World   Comedy  
    Interview with Edward R. Murrow on "Small World", CBS-TV, March 25, 1959.
  • [The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

    Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.172, Open Road Media
  • It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

    Funny   Thinking   Want  
  • But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you're going to make a joke about her that night.

    Party   Humor   Night  
    "Joan Rivers Interview: Her 6 Best One-Liners" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 12, 2013.
  • I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.

    Work Out   Doe   Watches  
  • The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

  • When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

    Charlotte Lennox (1752). “The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella: In Two Volumes”, p.163
  • Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

    English and Other Critical Essays Chartism, Chapter II
  • I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

    Ideas   Years   Support  
  • There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, look!

    Country   Hate   Roles  
    "Sunshine satirist" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2004.
  • A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

    Men   Order   Relief  
    John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”
  • Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.

    "7 Days: Franken on Franken, Air America, “Senator Maddow” & More". Interview with Mark Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2009.
  • Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

    Democracy   Veins   Mark  
    "Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: 'Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power'". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 8, 2011.
  • The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

    Nature   Fun   People  
    Interview with Edward R. Murrow on "Small World", CBS-TV, March 25, 1959.
  • I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart.

    Optimistic   Heart   Men  
    Interview on February 03, 1964. "Talks With Authors". Book edited by Charles F. Madden, 1968.
  • The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

  • Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

  • The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.

  • Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

    Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.
  • If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.

    "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.
  • I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.

    Source: www.vulture.com
  • In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

    Comedian   Age   Satirist  
  • The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

    Nature   Spring   Writing  
    Anthony Trollope (2014). “An Autobiography: and Other Writings”, p.159, OUP Oxford
  • Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

    Song   Sarcasm   Fool  
    'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 5
  • What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.

    Claud Cockburn (1961). “View from the West: Being the Third Volume of Autobiography”
  • Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

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