1,680 Quotes About Comedy

No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders found, after a few days, that they didn't own their horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops.

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

What doesn’t polite society, in all seriousness, want to discuss? Sex, money, political corruption, bodily functions, religion, loss and despair?These have been the very subjects attracting writers of comedy since Aristophanes penned “Lysistrata” as a vehicle for the young Joan Rivers.

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

Immortality is the new twenty!

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.