Satire Quotes

“Faith: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”

Ambrose Bierce

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

George Orwell

“Debt: an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.”

Ambrose Bierce

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

Mark Twain

"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other."

Voltaire

"The art of government is the organisation of idolatry."

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

James Russell Lowell

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

George Orwell

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

"Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived."

Jonathan Swift

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

Karl Marx

"History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead."

Voltaire

"History, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools."

Ambrose Bierce

"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

Voltaire

“A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

Jane Austen