Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization.… — 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
