quotations about satire
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
The Essential Lenny Bruce
The feathered arrow of satire has often been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
ISAAC DISRAELI
attributed, Day's Collacon
When scandal has new-minted an old lie,
Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply,
'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears
Gathering around it with erected ears.
WILLIAM COWPER
Charity
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
VOLTAIRE
Lettre a Bordes, January 10, 1769