Quotes about comedy
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- MHMitch Hedberg1968–2005Strategic Grill Locations
William S. Burroughs1914–1997The Place Of Dead Roads (1983), p. 155
Joseph Stalin1878–1953“The Elections in St. Petersburg”, article in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 30 (January 1913)
Terry Pratchett1948–2015Foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1998) by David Pringle, and The Definitive Illustrated Guide to Fantasy (2003) by David Pringle
Bernard Baruch1870–1965On his 85th birthday, as quoted in The Observer [London] (21 August 1955)
Mae West1893–1980I’m No Angel (1933)LEXICOGRAPHER — A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats.
Ann Coulterborn 1961Interview with Brian Lamb at Booknotes (August 11, 2002).All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.
Molière1622–1673Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670), Act II, sc. ivHe knew less about women than he knew about the physics of hyperspace.
John Buchan1875–1940The House of the Four Winds (1935), Ch. XINobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead1902–1968Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)“It’s broccoli, dear.”
“I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.”
E. B. White1899–1985Caption for a cartoon by Carl Rose in The New Yorker (8 December 1928)Sometimes you cannot hear me, it’s because sometimes I’m in parentheses.
Steven Wrightborn 1955Steven Wright Special (1985)I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.
Jon Stewartborn 1962Philadelphia Inquirer interview, April 22, 2007I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Susan Sontag1933–2004“Susan Sontag Finds Romance,” interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)