James Thurber Quotes About Comedy

• Las mujeres son más sabias que los hombres porque saben menos y entienden más.

  James Thurber

  Divertido, Ingenioso, Madurez

• With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

  James Thurber

  Birthday, Sarcastic, Writing

  1955 In the New York Post, 30 Jun.

• Un martini está bien. Dos son demasiados, y tres no son suficientes.

  James Thurber

  Drinking, Beer, Two

• El hombre ha pasado suficiente tiempo, o incluso demasiado, sin ser lo suficientemente hombre como para enfrentarse a la simple verdad de que el problema del hombre es el hombre.

  James Thurber

  Verdad, Simple, Hombres

  James Thurber (1961). "Lanterns & Lances", New York : Harper

• There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

  James Thurber

  Funny, Witty, Numbers

  New Yorker 4 Feb. 1939 "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"

• I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

  James Thurber

  Perro, Gato, Hombre

  James Thurber (1961). "Lanterns & Lances", New York : Harper

• Don't get it right, just get it written.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Comedy

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.562, Library of America

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

  James Thurber

  Past, Sound, Comedy

• Me despertaba a las 4 de la mañana y empezaba a estornudar, a veces durante cinco horas. Intenté averiguar qué tipo de alergia tenía, pero finalmente llegué a la conclusión de que debía de ser una alergia a la conciencia.

  James Thurber

  Sneezing, Allergies, Wake Up

• Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

  James Thurber

  Husband, Men, Bed

  James Thurber (1990). "Collecting Himself: James Thurber sobre la escritura y los escritores, el humor y él mismo"

• El ingenioso se burla de otras personas; el satírico se burla del mundo; el humorista se burla de sí mismo, pero al hacerlo, se identifica con las personas, es decir, con las personas de todo el mundo, no con el propósito de desmontarlas, sino simplemente de revelar su verdadera naturaleza.

  James Thurber

  Nature, Fun, People

  Interview with Edward R. Murrow on "Small World", CBS-TV, March 25, 1959.

• All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

  James Thurber

  Hate, Men, Firsts

  "Further Fables for Our Time". Book by James Thurber, 1956.

• El ingenioso se burla de otras personas; el satírico se burla del mundo; el humorista se burla de sí mismo.

  James Thurber

  Fun, World, Comedy

  Interview with Edward R. Murrow on "Small World", CBS-TV, March 25, 1959.

• The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, Men, Heartless

  1958 In the New York Times Magazine, 7 Dec.

• We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, War, Home

  James Thurber (1990). "Collecting Himself: James Thurber sobre la escritura y los escritores, el humor y él mismo"

• Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Drug, Challenges

• Bueno, si llamé al número equivocado, ¿por qué contestaste al teléfono?

  James Thurber

  Divertido, Hilarante, Ingenioso

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 5 June 1937

• We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

  James Thurber

  Wicked, Faults, Comedy

• I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

  James Thurber

  Pensar, Años, Números

  Quoted in an interview with Glenna Syse in Time Magazine, August 15, 1960.

• Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

  James Thurber

  Witty, Stupid, Trying

  Letter to Malcolm Cowley on March 11, 1954. "Collecting Himself". Book by James Thurber, 1989.

• Discussion in America means dissent.

  James Thurber

  Mean, America, Comedy

  James Thurber (1961). "Linternas y lanzas"

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

  James Thurber

  Differences, Apathy, Comedy

  The Observer, February 05, 1961.

• There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

  James Thurber

  Believe, Years, Long

  Quoted in Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks (eds) Selected Letters of James Thurber (1981).

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

  James Thurber

  Tragedy, Comedy, Outlook

  1961 Lanterns and Lances,'The Case for Comedy'.

• Es un ingenuo Borgoña doméstico sin crianza, pero creo que te divertirá su presunción.

  James Thurber

  Food, Wine, Thinking

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 1937

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