satirist, n.All

A Satirist is a taxidermist of the Past, Present and Future; one who disembowels, stuffs and mounts all the gods, living and dead; one who fills up with straw and sawdust all illusions.

The Satirist is one who is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

The Satirist is one who makes fun of the world, in contrast to the wit who makes fun of other persons and the humorist who makes fun of himself.

The Satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible to get relief.

A Satirist is a postlude to the day's funeral march; a prelude to freedom.

A Satirist is a person who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

The Satirist is always at risk of having his satire spring from his own caustic nature rather than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

A Satirist is a being with an eye in the back of his head.