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One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

Franklin P. Adams

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

Jacob Bronowski

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

Frank Moore Colby

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

William Hazlitt

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Alexander Pope

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Jonathan Swift

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

Gore Vidal

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