I wish I could see more signs of literary culture among my scientific opponents; I should find their books much more easy and agreeable reading if I could; and then they tell me to satirise the follies and abuses of the age, just as if it was not this that I was doing in writing about themselves.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
His ability to satirise society while still leaving it its dignity is unique.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
He did not satirise humanity, but Society.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood