Famous quotes containing the words satire and/or book:
“Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which must yet have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start. I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is a sober certainty. It has the best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)