5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Humor

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on humor

23. With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots; Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue, Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw.

73. 'Ha! ha!' quoth he, 'full plain I see, The Devil knows how to row.'

123. Humour is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

146. I am glad you came in to punctuate my discourse, which I fear has gone on for an hour without any stop at all.

150. Farce may often border on tragedy; indeed, farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.