Edward Dahlberg Quotes

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

I like the irony in my work.

Funny is when you're serious.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

It's funny because it's funny.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

I like to write a lot of satire.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

There's so much humor in serious things sometimes.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'

As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.