Famous quotes containing the words bear and/or comic:
“Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“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)