Quotes about Satire

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else.

— Will Rogers

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

— William Hazlitt

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

— William Hazlitt

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

— Francis de Sales

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

— Aldous Huxley