Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.

• [Humor]: In its essence, merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
  • "Kernels from the Cobb", in "Quote" magazine, vol. 1, no. 19, Indianapolis, IN (May 10, 1941), p. 5

• If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.
  • Reported in Reader's Digest, vol. 62, no. 369 (January 1953); cited in The Reader's Digest Treasury of Modern Quotations (1975), p. 411

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