Jonathan Swift Sarcasm Quotations

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

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.