Quotes about comedy
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Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (28 July 1763) p. 128Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III (May 1776) p. 313- Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (March 1759) p. 97
- Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III (12 October 1779)
LEXICOGRAPHER — A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)- Samuel Johnson1709–1784In James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), entry for 21 July 1763
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike;
One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
Ben Jonson1572–1637Epigrams (1616), LXI: To Fool, or KnaveThere’s reason good, that you good laws should make:
Men’s manners ne’er were viler, for your sake.Ben Jonson1572–1637Epigrams (1616), XXIV: To the ParliamentFourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.
Janis Joplin1943–1970On losing the Newsweek cover to Dwight D. Eisenhower after his death; New Musical Express (12 April 1969), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of QuotationsShakespeare is the happy huntingground of all minds that have lost their balance.
“Socialism with a human face”? … Frankenstein also had a human face.
Garry Kasparovborn 1963Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)
Garrison Keillorborn 1942“When I’m 64” Salon.com (8 August 2006)- Garrison Keillorborn 1942News from Lake Wobegon
