“Always be comic in a tragedy”

“Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?”

“The most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love.”

“The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.”

“All men are tragic...All men are comic...Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat.”

“You know I always liked you," said Fisher, quietly, "but I also respect you, which is not always the same thing. You may possibly guess that I like a good many people I don't respect. Perhaps it is my tragedy, perhaps it is my fault. But you are very different, and I promise you this: that I will never try to keep you as somebody to be liked, at the price of your not being respected.”

“He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.”