Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Stanwyck

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Caitlin Thomas

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

E. M. Forster

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Cyril Connolly

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

George Bernard Shaw

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

Mark Twain

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Mary Quant

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

Oscar Wilde

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Diane Setterfield

Tragedy alters everything.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Bob Odenkirk

Comedy is tragedy plus timing.

Bill Johnson

It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.

Edith Wharton

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

David Hockney

Tragedy is a literary concept.

Antonin Artaud

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Barbara Tuchman

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

Don Ohlmeyer

Veronica's Closet' will do a 27 share on a Thursday night and it's dismissed. And (Comedy Central's) 'South Park' does a two share and it's on the cover of 'Newsweek' magazine.

Don Adams

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all

David Suchet

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

Bob Newhart

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

Bernie Mac

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Bernie Mac

Comedy has been so good to me.

Bernie Mac

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

Eddie Izzard

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.