Top 6 Constance Rourke Quotes
#1. Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.
Constance Rourke
#2. In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
Constance Rourke
#3. In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.
Constance Rourke
#4. There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.
Constance Rourke
#5. Humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.
Constance Rourke
#6. An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Constance Rourke
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