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Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.
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All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

Robert Byron

— 1819-24  Don Juan, canto 3, stanza 9.

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Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.

diogenes laërtius

— Socrates, 5.

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The Pink Panther is supposed to use humor to uplift. Instead, I departed this movie feeling depressed. Lifeless comedies can suck the energy out of a viewer, especially when they sully the image of an cinematic icon.

james berardinelli

— Review of The Pink Panther (2006)

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I assisted at the birth of that most significant word flirtation, which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world, and which has since received the sanction of our most accurate Laureate in one of his comedies.


— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, The World, No. 101. Lady Frances Shirley referred to Poet-Laureate, Colley Cibber.

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The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films… They can’t afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you’re getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes…

woody allen

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