Famous quotes containing the words combat and/or comic:
“The combat ended for want of combatants.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
—Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)