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 lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Alexander Pope
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Lord Byron
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
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
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
I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
John Cusack
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Theodor Adorno
Satire Translations
satire in German is Satire, Spottschrift
satire in Latin is satura
satire in Swedish is satir
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