| The most important weapon in the arsenal of the satirist is a rifle made entirely of self-deprecation. |
| Famed in his day as patriot, satirist, and foe to tyranny, Marvell was virtually unknown as a lyric poet. |
| Ushenko is that rara avis in contemporary art, a big-hearted romantic satirist. |
| As a satirist, the writer is unafraid of drawing aside the drapes of hypocrisy and sham that seem to safeguard middle-class ethics. |
| Authors of burlesque usually avoided the high ethical road of the satirist, who ridicules a folly or fashion in the hope of eradicating it. |
| Through reduction, the satirist aims at to make the reader laugh at his subject. |
