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Comedy is, as we have said, an imitation of characters of a lower type, not, however, in the full sense of the word bad, the ludicrous being merely a sub division of the ugly. It consists in some defect or ugliness which is not painful or destructive.
Aristotle
Comedy is the mirror of everyday life.
Livius Andronicus
Comedy is an imitation of life, a mirror of customs, Ian image of truth.
Cicero
The mission of the comic poet is teaching and pleasing. The suavity of the language is always one of the delights of comedy. The comic poet moves his hearers, though he does not stir them as deeply as the tragic poet. The comic poet awakes in the souls of those who listen pleasant and humane feelings.
Minturno
The source of comedy is the rich joy found only in what is superb and wild in reality.
John M. Synge
Comedy must necessarily present an idealized version of reality and could never appreciate too closely to life …. for the perception of order, the recognition of the relation of one thing to another is an invariable source of enjoyment.
Schlegel
The writer of a comedy desires to provoke laughter and perhaps a comedy has done some sort of good if it has given this refreshment to the human spirit. But there are innumerable forms of laughter, from savage derision to the laughter of pure good followship. The best types of comedy will touch the springs of the finest laughter and there is no keener test of your essential civilization than the test of what you will laugh at
J. R. Williams
The two great branches of ridicule in writing are comedy and burlesque. The first ridicules person by drawing them in their proper characters, the other by drawing them quite unlike themselves
Joseph Addiso
All comedies are ended by marriage.
Lord Barron
Comedy is the fountain of sound sense.
George Meredith
