Definition of Satire

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Satire

A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.

Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.

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Satire Quotations

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Lord Byron

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Lenny Bruce

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
Robin Williams

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Alexander Pope

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
Shia LaBeouf

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
Vladimir Nabokov

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber

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

Satire Translations

satire in German is Satire, Spottschrift
satire in Latin is satura
satire in Swedish is satir

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