Top 100 Comical Quotes
#1. I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.
Kurt Vonnegut
#2. There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals ... no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.
Richelle Mead
#3. Nodded to the birds, a dozen of them in a black line, wise-eyed and watching. The town-square ran red. Blood in the gutters, blood on the flagstones, blood in the fountain. The corpses posed as corpses do. Some comical, reaching
Mark Lawrence
#4. There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.
Marshall McLuhan
#6. Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result.
Philip Roth
#8. I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
#9. Depends on one's perspective whether my current state of affairs is considered hilarious. A stranger peering into my life would probably find it quite comical. I think it's tragically humiliating, to say the very least.
Sarah Noffke
#10. Before Dwayne entered his inner office, he read one of many comical signs which Francine had put up on the wall in order to amuse people, to remind them of what they so easily forgot: that people didn't have to be serious all the time.
Kurt Vonnegut
#11. I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.
R. Kelly
#12. I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.
Daniel H. Pink
#13. I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical,
Herman Melville
#14. I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
Laura Haddock
#15. The P-38 WWII Nazi handgun looks comical lying on the breakfast table next to a bowl of oatmeal.
Matthew Quick
#16. Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
Wislawa Szymborska
#17. The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
Yukio Mishima
#18. Laugh at yourself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.
Og Mandino
#19. Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.
Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.
And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.
You Jin
#20. It was comical to compare that to the reaction I'd had to losing Chloe. I'd essentially turned into a filthy hobo, not eating, not showering, and surviving entirely on scotch and self-pity
Christina Lauren
#21. The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
Edward Abbey
#23. You'll wear a loincloth. That's how I make roach-boy's clothes."
Imagining Jeb and Morpheus in such an intimate position is both sexy and comical. As vain as Morpheus is, a lot of bickering about fashion choices must've taken place.
A.G. Howard
#24. My books are inspirational,comical and uplifting, with a twist of mystical, a whiff of magical and a heavy dose of romance to boot!
Julie Poole
#25. Woody Allen once quipped that dwarf is once of the four funniest words in the English language. To be in your very essence perceived as comical is a significant burden.
Andrew Solomon
#26. You can buy liquor at a store from a fat man whose face is fractured comically behind the chicken-wire cage. It's comical because he thinks this chicken wire protects him.
Carl Watson
#27. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#28. Life is a comical business, and there is
nothing funnier than love traveling through time.
Mario Puzo
#29. My films are comical films. They are made to laugh at. They are comical - and scientifically correct.
Isabella Rossellini
#30. Y'all mythological niggas is comical,
The astronomical is comin' thru like tha flu bombin' you ...
And embalmin' in your crew, too.
With the musical, mystical, magical, you know how I do.
Keith Murray
#31. It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it.
Chris Hadfield
#32. They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on the way, for they never sounded the same repeated in their own kitchens.
John Steinbeck
#33. Dimitri held up a car seat with one hand, which was almost comical. "We can go whenever you're ready. Lana gave us this and swears it's easy to install."
Rose laughed at that. "Oh, this I've got to see, comrade. Dimitri Belikov, badass god, installing a baby's car seat.
Richelle Mead
#34. People get really nuts around cars. They get angry at cars, they get angry at their car, they get angry at people driving in cars; there's something really comical about that, about automobiles.
Matt Dillon
#35. Do people always act this way around you? (Kiara)
You should have seen the reactions when I wore a League uniform. Those were actually comical. Except for the ones who lost control of their bowels. Then it was just messy. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. The more amorous the President became, the more his fatuousness made him intolerable: there is nothing in the world as comical as a lawyer in love - he is the perfect picture of gaucheness, impertinence and ineptitude.
Marquis De Sade
#37. You know what H.L. Mencken said one time about religious people? He said he'd been greatly misunderstood. He said he didn't hate them. He simply found them comical.
Kurt Vonnegut
#38. It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.
Ryan Reynolds
#39. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
Flannery O'Connor
#40. Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard.
Phil Collins
#41. It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical
Haruki Murakami
#42. That women were more spiritual, more sacred than men. I still believe that about women. Is that, too, comical?
Kurt Vonnegut
#43. My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
Alan Moore
#44. Little Miss Sassy Panties is back and I laugh out loud at her. I know she doesn't like it but damn she's fucking comical when she's feisty, but I guarantee, her ass will be paddled and for that sarcasm when the time comes.
Ella Dominguez
#45. It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.
Kurt Vonnegut
#46. All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two young men rushing about in mysterious formations, and whatever he brought in his flask.
Robert Benchley
#47. I've always told my kids, when it comes to humor, go for the comical not the crude and coarse. You can tell an amazing story without dragging people through the muck.
Kenneth Wayne Wood
#48. For I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool ...
Herman Melville
#49. Somebody thinking that they can make noise intimidate me is comical.
Carl Froch
#50. For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.
Juliet Marillier
#51. A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.
Richelle Mead
#52. I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.
Isabella Rossellini
#53. Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
Patrick DeWitt
#54. You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.
Ray Harryhausen
#55. ... "shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these.
Amit Chaudhuri
#56. I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified.
Frederick Lenz
#57. The drum, at any rate, from its martial voice and notable physiological effect, nay, even from its cumbrous and comical shape, stands alone among the instruments of noise.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#58. We think the feelings that are very serious in a man quite comical in a boy.
Charles Dickens
#59. I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his pride slightly comical. I thought that that must be embarrassing for him, and thought how much more pleasant it was to be a girl. That, by the way, is an opinion I still hold today.
Anne Desclos
#60. It's always a bit much, being in a band with your brother. We fight all the time, but it's kind of comical.
Joel Madden
#61. I often think it's comical
How Nature always does contrive
That every boy and every gal
That's born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!
W.S. Gilbert
#62. There followed one of those comical interludes in which the jihadists were confused about what to do next and fell to bitter recriminations.
Neal Stephenson
#63. I was afraid I sounded a bit comical with all my threats. As if I needed a mustache to twirl like some sort of ancient villain.
Diana Peterfreund
#64. Like an exasperating but invaluable friend, the Bible keeps bringing me back to my senses, often in bracing (and comical) ways.
Kathleen Norris
#65. When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me ...
Marnie Stern
#66. Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.
Monique Roffey
#67. It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.
Billy Graham
#68. Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature
Julio Cortazar
#69. A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they want a change
they do, I know, God help 'em.
George Eliot
#70. At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years - or until the year 2330 - to deploy SBInet technology across the Southwest border. That statistic would be comical if the subject matter were not so serious.
Henry Cuellar
#71. And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of.
Richard Ouzounian
#72. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious.
Marina Keegan
#73. The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.
Dave Matthews
#74. I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
Alexei Sayle
#75. It was difficult to image quite where this gentleman [a statue] could have come from: he was a little too cheerful for a saint in a church and not quite comical enough for a coffee-house sign.
Susanna Clarke
#76. The graying hair on the back of his head was swept forward, a comical arrangement to disguise his bald spot. He had to be an academic, but not in the humanities or he would be more self-conscious. A firm science like chemistry, maybe.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#77. Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn't that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.
Carroll Bryant
#78. You dare quarrel with me Doerwyne?
She wrinkled her nose. "It's not quarreling to express an opinion'"
"Women don't have opinions."
"Then I must be a man, because I have plenty.
Georgia Fox
#79. My, my, what is the world coming to that women should have feet? Even large ones
Rachel Heffington
#80. I have a feeling we're mooning a mean junkyard dog, all brave and laughing - until the dog's leash breaks
Kevin J. Anderson
#81. If teams had to name themselves honestly, they'd all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers.
Eric Berlin
#82. If you want to know what's going on, keep your mind in the fridge or it might go off.
Benny Bellamacina
#83. Oh. Sure. It makes perfect sense. Zane is a wolf because his father is an eagle.
C.J. Milbrandt
#84. What goes up must come down. Which is why we invented Viagra, to make it stay up a little longer.
Carroll Bryant
#85. It's okay to laugh, you know. The earth's not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe me. If there's a hell, I'll be there ahead of you, and they'll be too busy with me to even check you in.
Jennifer Niven
#86. One should never give up on hope. Unless that's the name of the girl who cheated on you in which case, yeah, give her up.
Carroll Bryant
#87. The doctor asked me recently how I was feeling within myself, I replied, "absolutely fine doctor, but I'm terribly lonely without myself.
Benny Bellamacina
#88. Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?
Sherwood Smith
#89. Well Connor thought ruefully At least now I know who to thank for my anger issues.
Justin Somper
#90. What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.
Tessa Dare
#91. When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather.
Joyce Rachelle
#92. All I wanted for Christmas was a New Years Eve party that I would never forget. Too bad I got too drunk to remember it.
Carroll Bryant
#93. Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things.
James Dashner
#94. This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
Terry Pratchett
#95. It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.
Duop Chak Wuol
#96. Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.
Bryan Davis
#97. I was beginning to think that Simon just had a bad case of OCD, ADD, and PMS. With a little BS and OMG mixed in.
Dannika Dark
#98. Knowledge may be power, but half of what I know I wish I could forget.
Carroll Bryant
#99. -"He loved her ... It was noble of him. It was beautiful."
-"It was stupid.
Lloyd Alexander
#100. I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion!
Jane Austen
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