Famous quotes containing the words satire and/or book:
“Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“‘Tis to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept into thousands besides herself,—of reading straight forwards, more in quest of the adventures, than of the deep erudition and knowledge which a book of this cast, if read over as it should be, would infallibly impart.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)