mocking humor Quotes

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.

Comedy is helping a lot at the moment. It also seems to be getting under Trump's skin and revealing a lot about the kind of thin-skinned fool that he is.

Bite me, Goth princess,” Shane called from the back. “Not literally or anything.” “Maybe you should say that to Michael.” “Not funny, Eve,” Michael said. Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. “Little bit,” she said.

I have to drink this much to be as unfunny as you.

Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.

Better be," Eve said. She mock-bit at his finger. "I could totally date somebody else, you know." "And I could rent out your room." "And I could put your game console on eBay." "Hey," Shane protested. "Now you're just being mean.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.