“This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy.”
“For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.”
“At the first time, I do my best to try againagainst the inevitable tragedy.In the second time, I become disgustedtowards the inevitable tragedy.The third time, disgust is overwhelmed into painfulness.But by the seventh time, this all becomes a farce comedy.”
“Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.”
“Comedy is the finest drug, laughter is the best medicine.”