"Comic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... How clearly he exposed their faults and failings! How thoroughly he knew the story of certain ruined gentry—the story of how, why, and through what cause they had fallen upon evil days! With what comic originality could he describe their little habits ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... has acquired celebrity by holding the mirror up to its own nature. The wonder was that Mr. Benson did not, following his precedent, write to the papers to say that Mr. Whitten was no gentleman. In the days before the Academy blended the characteristics of a comic paper with those of a journal of dogmatic theology, before it took to disowning its own reviewers, Mr. Whitten was the solid foundation of that paper's staff. He furnished the substance, which was embroidered by the dark grace of the personality ...
— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett
... "Quite comic, isn't it, my dear? What foolish things mothers are, aren't they? Just as fond of their bairns ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... said Socrates, "that any one who should now hear us, even though he were a comic poet, would say that I am talking idly, or discoursing on subjects that do not concern me. If you please, then, we will examine into it. Let us consider it in this point of view, whether the souls of men who are dead exist in Hades, or not. This is an ancient saying, which we now call ...
— Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates • Plato
... there was complete silence in the room, which was broken in a rather unusual manner. A deep voice, more like a growl, although it had a queer strain of comic good-nature in it, began the proceedings with the remark: "Well now, say, what do you want of ...
— The Lamp That Went Out • Augusta Groner
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