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Quotes About Comedy

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or pompous.
~ David Foster Wallace
Your comedy and mine will have been played then, and we shall be removed
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!
~ William Shakespeare
Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?
~ William Shakespeare
When in that moment,—so it came to pass,— Titania wak'd, and straightway lov'd an ass.
~ William Shakespeare
I, sir, am Dromio; command him away. I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay.
~ William Shakespeare
The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men. Polonius
~ William Shakespeare
A joke is a very serious thing.
~ Winston S. Churchill
A joke's a very serious thing.
~ Winston S. Churchill
?ycie pisze najbardziej oryginalne, najbardziej komiczne a jednocze?nie najbardziej dramatyczne scenariusze.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so. It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.
~ Wodehouse
Bertie, he said, I want your advice. Carry on. At least, not your advice, because that wouldn't be much good to anybody. I mean, you're a pretty consummate old [prat], aren't you? Not that I want to hurt your feelings, of course. No, no, I see that. What I wish you to do is put the whole thing to that fellow Jeeves of yours, and see what he suggests.
~ Wodehouse
My brain? That's my second favorite organ.
~ Woody Allen
I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.
~ Woody Allen
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.
~ Woody Allen
I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
~ Woody Allen
She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.
~ Woody Allen
Arlene and I have to get a divorce. She thinks I'm a pervert because I drank our water bed.
~ Woody Allen
We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.
~ Woody Allen
No, thanks. I already own a penguin.
~ Woody Allen
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose..
~ Woody Allen
Muerte (Una comedia) Tienen que comprender que yo no puedo competir con un asesino demente. Un maniaco tiene la fuerza de diez hombres y yo tengo la fuerza de medio...A menos que me estén utilizando como señuelo
~ Woody Allen
The only time that my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers.
~ Woody Allen
If I got a paper cut, that's a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy.
~ Woody Allen