Famous quotes containing the words satire and/or book:
“Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)