humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten. — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism. — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed.… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool. — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears. — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten. — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life.… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
