Quotes about comedy
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950Social Studies (1981), “Tips for Teens”.
Tom Lehrer1928–2025That Was the Year That Was (1965), Introduction to “National Brotherhood Week”- Tom Lehrer1928–2025An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)
We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD, by the way.
John Lennon1940–1980The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 179I once said cynically of a politician, ‘He’ll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.’
Oscar Levant1906–1972The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965), p. 13It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy.
Oscar Levant1906–1972On a friend’s elegy for Gershwin; recounted in The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
Oscar Levant1906–1972To George Gershwin; recounted in A Smattering of Ignorance (1940)When I used to speak of the lunatic fringe, I didn’t know I was going to be head of it.
Oscar Levant1906–1972The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)- Oscar Levant1906–1972The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), Ch. 1
