Constance Rourke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
-- Constance Rourke

#Humorous #Men #Emotional
In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
-- Constance Rourke

#Differences #Comedy #Tragic
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.
-- Constance Rourke

#Art #Humor #Creating
Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.
-- Constance Rourke

#Humor #Men #Tools
humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.
-- Constance Rourke

#Fashion #Humor #Opposites
There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.
-- Constance Rourke

#Humor #Character #Elements
In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.
-- Constance Rourke

#Criticism #Tradition #Comic

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

Constance Rourke famous quotes

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