“Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.” — Cynthia Ozick, Art & Ardor
Tag: comedy
Quote of the Day
“Like tragedy, comedy warns against the dangers of pride, but its emphasis shifts from crime to stupidity.” — Kenneth Burke, Attitudes Toward History
Quote of the Day
“The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken. When you add that people are necessarily mistaken, that all people are exposed to situations in which they must act as fools, that every insight contains its own special kind of blindness, you complete the comic circle.” — Kenneth Burke, Attitudes Toward History
Quote of the Day
“The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.” — Horace Walpole, Letter to the Countess of Upper Ossory (1777-01-19)