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Comedy   /kˈɑmədi/   Listen
Comedy

noun
(pl. comedies)
1.
Light and humorous drama with a happy ending.
2.
A comic incident or series of incidents.  Synonyms: clowning, drollery, funniness.



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"Comedy" Quotes from Famous Books



... all this false comedy," he thought with irritation. "It goes without saying that I've now become the by-word of the entire university. The devil nudged me! And even during the day yesterday it wasn't too late, when she was saying that she was ready to go back. All I had to do was to give her for a cabby ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin

... comedy is this, sir?" said the queen, severely. "Is this unlucky necklace destined ...
— The Queen's Necklace • Alexandre Dumas pere

... scraps of camp Spanish. Jose lost his temper admirably; for me, I shuffled along as an old man dazed with the scene; and when we came to the water's edge felt secure enough to attempt a trifle of comedy business as Jose hoisted my old limbs on to the horse's back behind the panniers. It fetched a shout of laughter. And then, having slipped off boots and stockings deliberately, Jose took hold of the bridle again and waded into the ...
— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch

... and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child; on a field-mouse instead of a human soul. Knowledge in use is wisdom, and wisdom implies a sense of values—you know a big thing from a little one, a valuable fact from a trivial one. Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value: a little misfit in life makes us laugh, a great one is ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... offers nothing which is capable of becoming incorporated with the existing intelligence of the age. He furnishes no acceptable basis for the caution of maturity or the generous vision of youth. Charles Lamb's recipe for witnessing with any quietude of conscience the artificial comedy of the last century was, to regard the whole as a passing pageant, and to accept with cheerful unconcern its issues for life and death. Some such state of mind must be commended to the student of this Philosophy. Let him be indifferent to that great act of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 • Various


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