Comical Quotes

• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

  Samuel Beckett

  World, Unhappiness, Grants

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I often think it's comical
  How Nature always does contrive
  That every boy and every gal
  That's born into the world alive
  Is either a little Liberal
  Or else a little Conservative!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Boys, Thinking, Doe

  Iolanthe act 2 (1882)

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• What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her homework. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word, they displayed towards her an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical. You shouldn't worry your pretty head over complex matters, little girl.

  Steig Larsson

  Girl, Attitude, Teenager

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• My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

  Alan Moore

  Life, Romantic, Cowboy

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• What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

  Tessa Dare

  Men, World, Modern Woman

  Tessa Dare (2010). “Twice Tempted by a Rogue”, p.138, Ballantine Books

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• Somebody thinking that they can make noise intimidate me is comical.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Thinking, Noise

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• As Kylie buried her head on the camp leader's shoulder, she heard Burnett scold, "I thought I told you to wait at the camp." Kylie felt Holiday tense at the reprimand, and then she raised her head. "And I thought you knew I don't follow anyone's orders." "Does anyone listen to me around here?" Burnett asked, his frustration making his tone sound almost comical. "Obviously not," one of the FRU agents said, and chuckled.

  C.C. Hunter

  Holiday, Frustration, Order

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• This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Two, Persons

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Carpet People”, p.11, Random House

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• I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his pride slightly comical. I thought that that must be embarrassing for him, and thought how much more pleasant it was to be a girl. That, by the way, is an opinion I still hold today.

  Anne Desclos

  Girl, Pride, Kinky

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• Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.

  John D. MacDonald

  Journey, Animal, People

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• At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years - or until the year 2330 - to deploy SBInet technology across the Southwest border. That statistic would be comical if the subject matter were not so serious.

  Henry Cuellar

  Technology, Years, Immigration

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• Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.

  John C. Wright

  Uplifting, Dream, Brother

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• I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Break Up, Breakup, Thinking

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• At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Profound, Intellectual, Foundation

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• All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two young men rushing about in mysterious formations, and whatever he brought in his flask.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Sight, Air

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• The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.

  Will Eisner

  Art, Long Ago, Feelings

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• What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

  Marina Keegan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Opposite of Loneliness" by Marina Keegan, abcnews.go.com. May 30, 2012.

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• It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

  William Golding

  Religious, Believe, Law

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• Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

  Julio Cortazar

  Important, Literature, Virtue

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• A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

  Edward Abbey

  Cowboy, Boys, Hats

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Sides, Remember, Life Is

  "Alone with the Greta Garbo of verse". Interview with James Hopkin, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2000.

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• I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.

  Og Mandino

  Men, Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World".

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• The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.

  John Boehner

  Ideas, Environmental, World

  "Nightline" with Cynthia McFadden, www.newsbusters.org. December 22, 2010.

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• Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Weekend, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.88, Crown Archetype

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• It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Men, Laughing

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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