Comedy Quotes

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. (Charlie Chaplin)
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. View quote
Horace Walpole
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. View quote
Mel Brooks
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. View quote
Angela Carter
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it. View quote
Denis Diderot
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. View quote
James Thurber
Friends applaud, the comedy is over. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. (Oscar Wilde)
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. View quote
James Thurber
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. View quote
Erma Bombeck
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it. View quote
Robert Orben
Comedy is acting out optimism. View quote
Robin Williams
One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes. View quote
Desi Arnaz
I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it. View quote
Candice Bergen
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. View quote
Tina Fey
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. View quote
Steve Martin
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. (Ben Kingsley)
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. View quote
Garrison Keillor
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. View quote
Tim Allen
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. View quote
Sholem Aleichem
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. View quote
Marty Feldman