“Make them laugh, make them cry, or make them angry.”

“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.”

“Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”

“We make fun of them in front of their faces, and laugh at them for not understanding we are insulting them.”

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

“Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.”

“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”

“Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy,
And with their Comoedies they make us cry.”

“[Malipiero's advice to Casanova. ] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.”