Book Quote by Alistair Cooke

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

— Peter Hilton

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me…

— David Hockney

Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too…

— George Will

The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding…

— Eugene Ionesco

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is…

— Jennifer Stone

America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it…

— Tom Wolfe

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

— Richard Condon

'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' is one of my favorite movies; it's a film that's a human comedy, it's a drama, and the characters…

— Josh Trank

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition…

— Dawn Powell

I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find a funny,…

— Charles R. Morris

Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his…

— Charles Harper Webb

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room…

— Don Henley