Comedy Quotes

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

Lita Grey Chaplin

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Woody Allen

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can

Lenny Bruce

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Virginia Woolf

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

Paul Goodman

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed -- that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

Graham Greene