Comic

Famous quotes containing the word comic:

“The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)

“Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
—Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)