Famous quotes containing the word comic:
“The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.”
—Paul Fussell (b. 1924)
“The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)