Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather rid...iculous, when you think about it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now, were I once at home, and in good satire, I'd try conclusions with those Janizaries,... And show them what an intellectual war is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attrac...tion to concern himself with the world that repels him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His poor, crazy, deformed body was a mere Pandora's box, containing all the physical ills that ever afflicted humanity. This, perh...aps, whetted the edge of his satire, and may in some degree excuse it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were t...errible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and stern dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and the best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they shrunk under the ascendant which his genius gained over theirs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power o...r influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-i...nspection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »