Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

— Irvin S. Cobb

I don't think I could ever reach the giddy heights of the inspired comedy and tragedy that's happening now in Washington. I mean, it's…

— Armando Iannucci

“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it…

— Iris Murdoch

It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore, it's important…

— Elie Wiesel

The Mexican people, you cannot explain this wealth, this history, this joy, the capacity to celebrate amid these tragedies that you have asked about.…

— Pope Francis

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

— Hermann Goering

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra.

— Lorenz Oken

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

— Knute Rockne

Love is merely a madness.

— William Shakespeare

If you are in love with someone, a kiss is merely a way of expressing it.

— Regina Cassandra

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on…

— Nancy Pearcey

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis