Age Quote by David Hume

Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and…

— George Meredith

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses…

— William Hazlitt

“comedy and comic satisfaction thrive on things that do not exactly add up. They thrive on these discrepancies as a source of pleasure rather…

— Alenka Zupančič

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between…

— Vissarion Belinsky

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We…

— Alan King

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Comedy is a noble art.

— Margaret Cho

There's an art to comedy.

— Marlon Wayans