Satire is focused bitterness. (Quote by - Leo Rosten)

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out. (Quote by - Dawn Powell)

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. (Quote by - Molly Ivins)

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. (Quote by - Lenny Bruce)

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species. (Quote by - Alan Lomax)

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. (Quote by - Ben Nicholson)

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire. (Quote by - Yahoo Serious)

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. (Quote by - Laurence Housman)

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom. (Quote by - Rob Corddry)

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage. (Quote by - Adolph Green)

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him. (Quote by - Shia LaBeouf)

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. (Quote by - Art Buchwald)