Best Satire Quotes

#1. Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

Alice Cooper

#2. People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

Robin Williams

#3. Laughter is the best medicine

Chase Soundly

#4. If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Voltaire

#5. Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

Graydon Carter

#6. The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#7. Our parents would not be 'The best parents in the world' (to us) if they were not our parents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and everyone else should be incinerated. They don't know right from wrong. That's what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny.

Mel Brooks

#9. Tribal Chief 1: The will of the people is what is best. That is what democracy means

Tribal Chief 2: But if the people don't know what they are talking about, how can that be the best?

Leonard Wibberley

#10. My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met

Raji Singh

#11. It is proved ... that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Voltaire

#12. I think the very best attitude for anyone investing in the stock market is to make up his mind to lose money.
- The Duchess Gloriana XII

Leonard Wibberley

#13. Olga was better, in the sun, where he could see every pore in her skin. Get closer. Feel her next to him. It was all he wanted in the world. It was the last thing in the world that he could do.

Graham Spaid

#14. St John had always been a fan of the RS Turbo, mainly due to the colour coded rear spoiler and air vents in the bonnet, which distinguished it from the more common and less powerful XR3i.

St John Morris

#15. Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Benjamin Franklin

#16. I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#17. Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.

Terry Pratchett

#18. Everything you're telling me was just a story, and now it's real.

Kathy Bryson

#19. If you do it in the bookies, it's a bet ... If you pay some 23-year-old in an Armani suit two hundred grand to go to the window for you, it's a derivative.

Paul Murray

#20. You're arguing in a circle," I said. "In a spiral," said Lamiel, "which is the best way to argue.

Harry Blamires

#21. Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.

Tony Hendra

#22. The only candidate I'd allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we're talking about foraging for squirrels, he's notoriously apolitical.

Greg Gutfeld