“She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.”

“I think a comedian's job isn't just to make people laugh. I think it's to make people think.”

“That's all the glory my heart is after,
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.”

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

“When you trick people into laughing at themselves, that's wit. If you don't laugh at yourself, everything becomes heavy.”

“An intelligent society would have made of them people like everybody else!”

“I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.”

“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”

“It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.”

“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”