Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

-Brookner, Anita
  In The Spectator, 23 Mar.

I'll publish, right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

-Rochdale
  English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, l.5^6.

Difficile est saturam non scribere. It is difficult not to write satire.

-Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Satirae, no.1, l.30.

The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific.

-Lodge, David John
  Changing Places, ch.2.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

-Nabokov,Vladimir
  Interview in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, Spring.

Let Sporus trembleö'What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

-Pope, Alexander
  Of Lord Hervey.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.305^8.

Why stir the wasps that rim Fame's luscious pot? Love costs us nothing, satire costs a lot!

-Rickword, Edgell
  'The Contemporary Muse'.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

-Roth, Philip Milton
  Reading Myself and Others,'On Our Gang'.

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

-Swift,Jonathan
  The Battle of the Books, preface.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

-Swift,Jonathan
  ATale of aTub,'Author's Preface'.