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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
Italo Calvino
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
Roland Barthes
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sydney J. Harris
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
William Hazlitt
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells
Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.
Graham Greene
Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.
Mark Twain
I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
George Eliot
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
Frank Moore Colby
