Humor e Ironia

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

You write with ease, to show your breeding,

Alcohol is a very necessary article … It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

I’m only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

Oh, you are a very poor soldier—a chocolate cream soldier!

Odious! in woollen! ’twould a saint provoke!

Die, and endow a college, or a cat.

‘Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,

And he, whose fustian’s so sublimely bad,

You think this cruel? take it for a rule,

I am his Highness’ dog at Kew;

Sir, I admit your gen’ral rule

You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply callisthenics with words.

She ran the whole gamut of the emotions from A to B.

Men seldom make passes

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie … A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.