"Satirize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... violently enough forced in, to satirize the obstinacy with which the puritans refused the use of the ecclesiastical habits, which was, at that time, one principal cause of the breach of union, and, perhaps, to insinuate, that the modest purity of the surplice was sometimes a cover ...
— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson
... or poem without a purpose, to satirize an evil, correct a wrong or elevate the human soul into the lofty atmosphere of the good and great. His villains and heroes are of royal mold, and while he lashes with whips of scorn the sin of cupidity, hypocrisy and ingratitude, ...
— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce
... satirize the same affectation in her English admirer;—"How oddly he is suited! I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round hose in France, his bonnet in Germany, and ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin
... Morgan should be alive to satirize some of the statements on the history of mathematics ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan
... of revenge upon her mother; and when she came home some days ago she brought with her a distant cousin of her own age—a boy, enormously fat—whom she soon began to decoy around the garden as her mother had been decoyed by the general. Further to satirize the similarity of lovers, she one day pinned upon his shoulders ...
— Aftermath • James Lane Allen
... in philosophy, economics, and art, concentrates itself on demonstrations and reminders that morality and law are only conventions, fallible and continually obsolescing. Tragedies in which the heroes are bandits, and comedies in which law-abiding and conventionally moral folk are compelled to satirize themselves by outraging the conscience of the spectators every time they do their duty, appear simultaneously with economic treatises entitled "What is Property? Theft!" and with histories of "The Conflict between Religion ...
— Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara • George Bernard Shaw |
