Famous quotes containing the word comic:
“And in a comic mood
In mid-air take to bed a wife.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)