comedy

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

—Chao

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over. SeeAugustus 42:48.

—Behn, Aphra ne¤  e  Amis

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

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

The power that created the poodle, the platypus and people has an integrated sense of both comedyand tragedy.

—Thurber,James Grover

Une ample Come¤  die a'   cent actes divers, Et dont la sce'  ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

—La Fontaine,Jean de

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.

—Sidney, Sir Philip

Comedy is a very serious thing.

—Garrick, David

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

—Malamud, Bernard

Tragedy is if I cut my finger.Comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die.

—Brooks, Mel pseudonym of  Melvin Kaminsky

   Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.

—Izzard, Eddie

Le drame tient de la trage¤  die par la peinture des passions et de la come¤  die par la peinture des caracte'  res. Le drame est la troisie'  me grande forme de l'art. Indrama, tragedy paintsthepassions and comedy paints characters. Drama is the third great form of art.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.

—Gorman, Dave

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

—Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Happy is the country which has no history, and happier still is that musical comedyabout which one can find nothing to say.

—Agate,James

Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye, Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye, So sende myght to make in som comedye!

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

—Thurber,James Grover

Talking of the Comedy of 'The Rehearsal', he said 'It has not enough wit to keep it sweet.' This was easy;öhe therefore caught himself, and pronounced a more rounded sentence; 'It hasnot vitalityenoughtopreserve it from putrefaction.'

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

—Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

—Thurber,James Grover