| Quotations on the subject: Humour |
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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Defining and analysing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
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