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

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Thinking, Noise

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• Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Silly, Home

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• -"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Beautiful, Stupid, Noble

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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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• It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

  Haruki Murakami

  Elements, Very Sad, Seems

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• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

  Samuel Beckett

  Laughing, Stories, World

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

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• Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

  Bryan Davis

  Broken, Bird, Too Late

  Bryan Davis (2012). “Liberator”, p.141, Zondervan

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• The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.

  Julia Quinn

  Brain, Battle, Looks

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• There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated by conversation or laughter, is completely transformed. She had a lovely disposition, a quick mind and a fondness for the comical. She was always very ready to smile and, since a smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear, she had been known upon occasion to outshine women who were acknowledged beauties in three countries.

  Susanna Clarke

  Country, Laughter, Mind

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• Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he drinks too much and he always runs away. Since the Rules allow him to make Jokes, he will excuse his behaviour in a variety of comical ways. Physically he is stunted and not at all handsome, although he usually dresses flamboyantly. He tends to wear hats with feathers in. You will discover he is very vain. But, if you can avoid smacking him, you will come to tolerate if not love him. He will contrive, in some cowardly way, to play a major part in saving the world.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Running, Men, Play

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• Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sides, Belief, Secure

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.167, Macmillan

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• It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

  Billy Graham

  Generations, Peers, Sometimes

  Billy Graham (2013). “Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Writing, Men, Solitude

  Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press

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• There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals...no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.

  Richelle Mead

  Missing, Criminals, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1332, Penguin

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• Do people always act this way around you? (Kiara) You should have seen the reactions when I wore a League uniform. Those were actually comical. Except for the ones who lost control of their bowels. Then it was just messy. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Should Have, People, League

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born Of Night: Number 1 in series”, p.129, Hachette UK

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• The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority

  Yukio Mishima

  Hero, Inferiority, Worship

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• A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.

  Richelle Mead

  Gun, Cheater, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.291, Penguin

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• A gun I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought. I’d spent my life focusing on hand to hand combat, learning to dodge fangs and powerful hands that could snap my neck. A gun? It was so… well, easy. Should I be insulted? I didn’t know. Did it matter? I didn’t know that either. All I knew in that moment was that I was going to die, regardless.

  Richelle Mead

  Powerful, Gun, Cheater

  "Last Sacrifice". Book by Richelle Mead, December 7, 2010.

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• Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.

  Juan Manuel Marquez

  Boxing, Serious

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• The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Air, Umpires, Enemy

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

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• All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.

  James Russell Lowell

  Song, Bird, Crow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1661, Delphi Classics

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