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“I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
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“And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument with a vegan, say "I'm wrong", and run away as fast as you can. Do not f*ck with vegans because they will f*ck you up... BECAUSE THEY'RE HUNGRY.”
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“Why should we fear; and what? The laws?
They all are armed in virtue's cause;
And aiming at the self-same end,
Satire is always virtue's friend.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: Ghost (bk. III, l. 943)
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“Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;
He hides behind a magisterial air
He own offences, and strips others' bare.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Charity (l. 490)
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“The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or
behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out
of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”
James Joyce Quotes Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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“It is difficult not to write satire.
[Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (I, 29)
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“Satire is what closes Saturday night.”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (I, 29)
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“Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 508)
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“Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;
The rage but not the talent to abuse.”
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes Source: To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace, (Pope)
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“I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
To each affronting sot I meet, the word
Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,
And pointed satire runs him through and through.”
John Oldham Quotes Source: Satire upon a Printer (l. 35)
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“Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 201)
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“Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 307), (Sporus is Lord John Hervey)
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“There are, to whom my satire seems too bold;
Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,
And something said of Chartres much too rough.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (satire I, l. 2)
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“Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck and tilt at all I meet.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (satire I, l. 71)
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“It is a pretty mocking of the life.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Painter at I, i)
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“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally
discover everybody's face but their own.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes Source: The Battle of the Books
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“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies
about them when they die.
[Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et
l'eloge ment apres leur mort.]”
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Quotes Source: Lettre a Bordes
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