Top 25 Quotes About Irony And Satire
#1. I finally figured out the real difference between irony and satire
irony is when you fry a chicken in batter mixed from its own eggs, and satire is when you crack jokes about it.
Taylor Anderson
#2. Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.
Criss Jami
#3. I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.
Thomas Mars
#4. I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture.
Simon S. Tam
#5. The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.
Andrew McEwan
#7. The robots came bearing a gift and the name of it was "Plenty."
Plenty is a habit-forming drug. You do not cut the dosage down. You kick it if you can; you stop the dose entirely. But the convulsions that follow may wreck the body entirely.
Frederik Pohl
#9. He won't stop the war until you give him the peace prize.
Mohammed Hanif
#10. If you are not wrong only Pontius Pilate can crucify you.
Amit Abraham
#12. Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
#14. But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#15. I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.
Jonathan Kieran
#16. Women, when they kill themselves, choose far more romantic methods - like slashing their wrists or taking an overdose of sleeping pills.Abandoned princesses and Hollywood actresses have provided numerous examples of this.
Paul Coelho
#17. That holding on to things "will only break your heart." So he avoided attachments,
Mitch Albom
#18. I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there is a tragic element to photographing, in this case not war, but the collapse. It was just destruction.
Joel Meyerowitz
#19. I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at their troubles. They can enjoy sitcoms. For those who aren't quite so lucky, well, the irony might be lost on them.
Harold Ramis
#20. As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.
Al Lewis
#21. I was called a terrorist yesterday ... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.
Nelson Mandela
#22. The internet is a dark, dark place. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere, someone has this file that says, "Scott Foley, on March 13, 2012, was searching for how to dispose of a body for 48 hours."
Scott Foley
#23. I did it, and it's all right. Even the worst experiences were right in their time, because otherwise, it wouldn't have come to this point. That was your road, and you had to walk it.
Michael "Bommi" Baumann
#24. And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!
Susan Kay
#25. I'd spent my whole human life not making waves, hiding what I was, trying not to be noticed.
Until now.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
