Slapstick Quotes

“After facing the relentless pandemic showdowns, many long for the glow of a new dawn and crave bright life stories with liberating slapsticks to shatter silenced desolation and pent-up rage, restoring self-value and broken identity.”
― Erik Pevernagie, Stilling our Mind

“The classic definition of slapstick runs along the line of, "Funny is someone else ramming his face repeatedly into a brick wall.”
― Katherine Dunn, The Pilo Family Circus

“Standing among all those tiny, wavering lights, I felt as though I were God, up to my knees in the Milky Way.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

“Lonesome, no more!”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“But cocks aren’t supposed to lay eggs...” Sahil said, trying to untangle himself. “...they’re supposed to fertilise them.”
― Faraaz Kazi

“Yes, and Eliza and I composed a precocious critique of the Constitution of the United Staes of America, too. We argued that it was a good scheme for misery as any, since its success in keeping the common people reasonably happy and proud depended on the strength of the people themselves-- and yet it described no practical machinery which would tend to make the people, as opposed to their elected representatives, strong.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

“This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart
As greet as it had been a thonder-dent,
That with the strook he was almoost yblent;
And he was redy with his iren hoot,
And Nicholas amydde the ers he smoot.
Of gooth the skyn an hande-brede aboute,
The hoote kultour brende so his toute,
And for the smert he wende for to dye.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Prologue and Tale

“...but as he just happened to jump on to the teeth of a rake which had been left lying there after the hay-making, the handle of it struck against his face and gave him a tremendous blow. (The Seven Swabians)”
― Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales

“Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!”
― Richard Curtis, The Black Adder

“The story is uneven in its progression.”
― ichtys, Superior Cross

“Some girls are like ants in your pants”
― P G Wodehouse

“We didn't belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Confused, fearful, starving, the last thing she’d needed was a good stout blow to the head.”
― Kirby Lee Davis, God's Furry Angels

“A can of soup rolled away through the grass, as if wanting no part of the whole scene. The parsley shot upward like a tiny green firework. The apple veered off again, making a clean getaway this time.”
― Belinda Kelderhouse, Summer Breeze: An Anthology of Summer Stories