Comedy Quote by Fernando Pessoa

It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored,…

— Alexander Pope

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

— Charlton Heston

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

— Barbara Stanwyck

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

— Aristotle

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

— John Guare

I don't understand why there is such a trend now for comedy to be cruel. Once you're cruel, you're not a comedian any more.

— Omid Djalili

“I loathe the grading of tragedy and the jostling for pre-eminence amongst the bereaved, that most disgusting example of the disgusting habit of claiming…

— Catriona McPherson

“There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren’t there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if…

— Siri Hustvedt

The trend the world over is comedy. People have enough tragedies in their lives.

— Priyadarshan

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

— Graham Greene

I don't think anything's cruel - if you're so sensitive these days that you see cruelty everywhere, unfortunately every time a comedian comes on…

— Roy Hodgson