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Unknown Source quotesNothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm.
Jonathan Swift quotesSatire 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.
Thomas Carlyle quotesSarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Mark Twain quotesOut of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.
Lord Byron quotesFools are my theme, let satire be my song.
William Hazlitt quotesSatirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
Georg C. Lichtenberg quotesIt 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.
Mark Twain quotesI refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
George Eliot quotesBlows are sarcasm's turned stupid.