OSCAR WILDE
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
GEORGE ORWELL
"The truth is that you cannot be memorably funny without at some point raising topics which the rich, the powerful and the complacent would prefer to see left alone."
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
"Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe."
CHARLES DICKENS
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
from A Christmas Carol
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KURT VONNEGUT
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
from The Merchant Of Venice
C.S. LEWIS
"A little comic relief in a discussion does no harm, however serious the topic may be. (In my own experience the funniest things have occurred in the gravest and most sincere conversations.)"
VICTOR HUGO
"Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face."
from Les Misérables
JOHN STEINBECK
"Build up laughter out of inadequate materials"
MARK TWAIN
"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter."
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."
STEPHEN KING
"A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh."
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
"What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures."
PHILIP K.DICK
"It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen."
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