Citas satíricas

• La sátira es tradicionalmente el arma de los impotentes contra los poderosos.

  Molly Ivins

  Powerful, Weapons, Powerless

  The Mouth of Texas", People Weekly, 9 de diciembre de 1991.

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• A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Libel, Angry

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• satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Reality, Exaggeration, Wrapping

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.208, Random House

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

  Gore Vidal

  Audience, Ifs

  Gore Vidal (1957). “Visit to a Small Planet: A Comedy Akin to a Vaudeville”, Boston ; Toronto : Little Brown

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• Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter.

  Joe Randazzo

  Laughter, Soul, Needs

  "Former 'Onion' editor: Freedom of speech cannot be killed" by Joe Randazzo, www.msnbc.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

  Philip Roth

  Art, Humor, Moral

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• Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

  Molly Ivins

  Powerful, Weapons, Vulgar

  "The Mouth of Texas". People Weekly, December 9, 1991.

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• You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

  Art Buchwald

  Amor, Vida, Relación

  The New York Times Book Review Interview in 1985. Quoted in "Pundits, Poets, and Wits: An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns‎" by Karl Ernest Meyer, p. 308, 1990.

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

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Razors, Should, Polished

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “Verses Addressed To The Imitator Of The First Satire Of The Second Book Of Horace”

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• Los tontos son mi tema, que la sátira sea mi canción.

  Lord Byron

  Canción, Sarcasmo, Tonto

  English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" (1809) l. 5

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• La sátira es una composición de sal y mercurio; y depende de la diferente mezcla y preparación de esos ingredientes, que resulte una noble medicina, o un rancio veneno.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Ciencia, Diferencias, Medicina

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• Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

  Voltaire

  Lying, Men, Eulogy

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• Si tienes que explicar la sátira a alguien, es mejor que te rindas.

  Barry Humphries

  Giving Up, Might, Wells

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• Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.

  Josh Billings

  Ley

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• Dar dinero y poder al gobierno es como dar whisky y las llaves del coche a los adolescentes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspiración, Divertido, Dinero

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). "Parlamento de Putas: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government", p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• La sátira es un tipo de poesía en la que se reprenden los vicios humanos.

  John Dryden

  Vices, Kind, Humans

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

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Memorable, Humor

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• Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

  Jonathan Swift

  Infracción

  'A Tale of a Tub' (1704) 'The Author's Preface'

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• El escritor satírico que no escribe más que sátiras debe escribir muy poco, o parecerá que su sátira surge más bien de su propia naturaleza cáustica que de los pecados del mundo en el que vive.

  Anthony Trollope

  Naturaleza, Primavera, Escritura

  Anthony Trollope (2014). "An Autobiography: and Other Writings", p.159, OUP Oxford.

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• La sátira es una especie de cristal en el que los espectadores suelen descubrir la cara de todo el mundo menos la suya propia; lo cual es la razón principal de la buena acogida que tiene en el mundo, y de que muy pocos se ofendan con ella.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcasm, Glasses, Faces

  Jonathan Swift (2013). "The Very Best of Jonathan Swift In Plain and Simple English (Translated)", p.534, BookCaps Study Guides.

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• La sátira es tragedia más tiempo. Si le das tiempo suficiente, el público y los críticos te permitirán satirizarla. Lo cual es bastante ridículo, si lo piensas.

  Lenny Bruce

  Tiempo, Sarcasmo, Pensamiento

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• Sátira o sentido, ¡ay! ¿Puede sentir Esporo? ¿Quién rompe una mariposa en una rueda?

  Alexander Pope

  Butterfly, Wheels, Break

  "Epístola al Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 307 (1735)

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• 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.

  William Cowper

  Light, Air, Flames

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.78

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• There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

  Isaac Hayes

  Religious, Racist, World

  "Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park'", www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2006.

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• When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Children, Self, Parent

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