Comic

Famous quotes containing the word comic:

“And in a comic mood
In mid-air take to bed a wife.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

“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)

“The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)