What a gap between Queen Victoria and Queen Bess, what a thorough and far-reaching change in everything that goes to make up the life and habits of men; and yet Shakespeare’s fine strokes of humor have become so fitted to our common speech that the very unconsciousness with which we apply them proves how they tally with our modern emotions and opportunities.
Agnes Repplier
Where these words come from
- The sources checked so far agree on this one. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59018
More on play
For the comic spirit has a logic of its own, even in its wildest eccentricities.Henri BergsonThe first point to which attention should be called is that the comic does not exist outside the pale of what is strictly HUMAN.Henri BergsonA landscape may be beautiful, charming and sublime, or insignificant and ugly; it will never be laughable.Henri BergsonIt seems as though the comic could not produce its disturbing effect unless it fell, so to say, on the surface of a soul that is thoroughly calm and unruffled.Henri BergsonIndifference is its natural environment, for laughter has no greater foe than emotion.Henri BergsonNow step aside, look upon life as a disinterested spectator: many a drama will turn into a comedy.Henri Bergson
More inspiration
See allYou gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor RooseveltNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Eleanor RooseveltLittle strokes fell great oaks.
Benjamin FranklinEnergy and persistence conquer all things.Benjamin FranklinWell done is better than well said.Benjamin FranklinIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
Eleanor RooseveltNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Eleanor RooseveltLittle strokes fell great oaks.Benjamin FranklinEnergy and persistence conquer all things.Benjamin FranklinWell done is better than well said.Benjamin FranklinIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.Frederick Douglass