James Thurber Comedy Quotations

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

Discussion in America means dissent.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.