“In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.” ThinkingShouldWritingAgeMankindYouthSatireApology Author:Horace
“Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.” ShouldPersonsUseQualityToo MuchDangerousPleaseSpiteSatireRefined Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.” ShouldObjectsDuesDiscriminationSatire Author:Joseph Addison
“Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.” IfsMenShouldPersonsMightParticularReaderPleaseIllMiserableSatire Author:Joseph Addison