Comedy Quote by Peter Leithart

“There's something about courting the darkness that makes some people see the truth in raw, twisted ways, as though they were shining a black…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“To give expression to humour, and write in a strain of graceful pleasantry, is the gift of great geniuses. The cleverest character in comedy…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“villains need to develop a villainous laugh, so that they may simultaneously celebrate their villainous deeds and frighten whatever nonvillainous people happen to be…

— Lemony Snicket

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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 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 a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a…

— Laura Linney

A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted…

— David Hume

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for avast…

— Herman Melville

“Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live…

— Lynda Williams

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

— George Carlin

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

— Trevor Noah