Quotes about comedy
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G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (1924)I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell1887–1964The Last Years of a Rebel (1967), p. 24
Robert E. Howard1906–1936From a letter to H. P. Lovecraft (5 December 1935)
Ann Coulterborn 1961“Obama Is Not A Muslim” (September 1, 2010).
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981), No. 45: To his son Michael (9 June 1941)
Tallulah Bankhead1902–1968Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
Anton LaVey1930–1997The Nine Satanic Sins (1987)
Charlton Heston1923–2008Speech at the Harvard Law School (1999), as quoted in “Appreciation: Charlton Heston” in Time magazine (April 6, 2008)
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto1928–1979Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 63.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 4
Harold Pinter1930–2008The Homecoming (1965), act 2, sc. 1A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.
Raymond Chandler1888–1959Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 13Britain is basically Pompeii if Pompeii had voted for the volcano.
John Oliverborn 1977Last Week Tonight (2014–present), On Brexit.I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
Miguel de Cervantes1547–1616Don Quixote, Part II (1615), Ch. 33There’s some are fou o’ love divine;
There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
Robert Burns1759–1796The Holy Fair, st. 27 (1786)