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"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."

Barthes, Roland on sarcasm    Share


"Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it."

Bruce, Lenny on sarcasm    Share

"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."

Byron, Lord on sarcasm    Share

"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."

Calvino, Italo on sarcasm    Share

"Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it."

Carlyle, Thomas on sarcasm    Share

"By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection."

Colby, Frank Moore on sarcasm    Share

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on sarcasm
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"Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid."

Eliot, George on sarcasm    Share

"Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love."

Hazlitt, William on sarcasm    Share

"It is difficult not to write satire."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on sarcasm    Share

"Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain."

Klee, Paul on sarcasm    Share

"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."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on sarcasm    Share

"Satire is focused bitterness."

Rosten, Leo on sarcasm    Share

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it."

Swift, Jonathan on sarcasm
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"The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives."

Trollope, Anthony on sarcasm    Share

"Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized."

Twain, Mark on sarcasm    Share

"I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it."

Twain, Mark on sarcasm
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"Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm."

Unknown, Source on sarcasm
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"Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs."

Vidal, Gore on sarcasm
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