Comic Quotes

777 quotes by 558 authors

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun. — Chris Hardwick
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had. — John Oliver
Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude.… — Katharine Hepburn
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your… — Lorrie Moore
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. — Edith Wharton
--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's. — Charles Stross
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I… — Ray Bradbury
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason… — Jacques Rigaut
I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time... — Ernest Hemingway
Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the… — Milan Kundera
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. — George Santayana
Humanity is a comic role. — Novalis
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked,… — Leonard Cohen
[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin.… — Flannery O'Connor
I let out a laugh that sounded more like the yip of a startled poodle. "Superp-powers? I wish. My powers aren't winning me a slot… — Kelley Armstrong
Hey, big spender,â€ I said. He looked appreciative but more amused than anything else. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a one dollar… — Richelle Mead
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.) — Elizabeth Gilbert
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires… — Soren Kierkegaard

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