Quotations on Satire | Quotations: 6 | Pages: 1
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
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 ... |
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by Jonathan Swift
(November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745) |
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. |
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? |
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet. |
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough, And something said of Chartres much too rough. |
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