Comedy Quotes

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Angela Carter

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Charlie Chaplin

Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts... (Act IV, Scene II)

William Shakespeare

DEMETRIUSRelent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yieldThy crazed title to my certain right.LYSANDERYou have her father's love, Demetrius;Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

William Shakespeare

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

Paul Reiser

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

Joan Rivers

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

Joan Rivers

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Fred A. Allen

And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.

William Shakespeare

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

William Shakespeare

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

Paulo Coelho

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

Paulo Coelho

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

George Jean Nathan

I'm not a hypochondriac, but my gynaecologist firmly believes I am.

Rodney Dangerfield

The guy has baggy pants, flat feet, the most miserable, bedraggled-looking little bastard you ever saw; makes itchy gestures as though he's got crabs under his arms -- but he's funny.

Sterling Ford

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

James Thurber

Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

Lenny Bruce

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Neil Gaiman