Comedy
is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a
narrow escape into faith.
-- Christopher Fry
1907-, British
Playwright
Comedy
deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying
lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
-- Paul Goodman
1911-1972, American
Author, Poet, Critic
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
1904-1991, British
Novelist
Comedy
naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food
on which it lives; and by constantly and
successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of
mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself
nothing worth laughing at.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British
Essayist
