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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. - Charles Churchill, Ghost (bk. III, l. 943) 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, Charity (l. 490) 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. - James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (I, 29) Satire is what closes Saturday night. - George S. Kaufman Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims (no. 508) 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. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace, (Pope) 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. - John Oldham, Satire upon a Printer (l. 35) Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend. - Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires (l. 201) Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? - Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires (l. 307), (Sporus is Lord John Hervey) 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, Second Book of Horace (satire I, l. 2) Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet. - Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace (satire I, l. 71) It is a pretty mocking of the life. - William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (Painter at I, i) It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. - Jonathan Swift Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. - Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.] - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), Lettre a Bordes
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