“The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?”
Source: Nights at the Circus
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English novelist 1940–1992Related quotes

"Be A Clown" (written in 1946)
The Pirate (1948)

Pt. 2, ch. 22
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: "I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off."
"You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem. "Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them."
"Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

AF, 73; p. 161
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)

“A willing heart adds feather to the heel,
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.”
De Montfort (1798), Act III, scene 2; in A Series of Plays.