| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? |
| Alexander Pope | There are, to whom my satire seems too bold, Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough, And something said of Chartres much too rough. |
| Alexander Pope | Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet. |
| Alexander Pope | Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? |
| Alexander Pope | There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough, And something said of Chartres much too rough. |
| Alexander Pope | Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet. |
| James Joyce | The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. |
| John Oldham | 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. |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagundex | Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse. |
| Charles Churchill | Why should we fear, and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause, And aiming at the self-same end, Satire is always virtue's friend. |
| Jonathan Swift | Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. |
| William Shakespeare | It is a pretty mocking of the life. |
| William Cowper | Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame, He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare. |
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