Ascending/comedy

Famous quotes containing the words ascending and/or comedy:

“It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)