Satire

"Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtues cause; And aiming at the self-same end, Satire is always virtues friend."

"Satire is a kind of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own."

"Satire well applied, is the medicine of the mind."

"Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by René Clair À Nous la Liberté a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Albeit macht frei (“Work makes you free.”)"

"It is a pretty mocking of the life."

"Satire, by being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any."

"A good satirist never pauses to worry about angering the citizenry."

"Satire is what closes on Saturday night."

"Difficile est satiram non scribere."

"Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice."

"Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch thats scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse."

"I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through."