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Tragedy Quotes

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

Writing Tragedy Play Three Dead He

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

Children Think Doubt Tragedy Just

People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'

History People Me Comedy Tragedy

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Arthur E. Morgan

Man Feel Tragedy Important May Lack

Usually when tragedy is present, a great art movement is right behind it.

Fantastic Negrito

Great Art Present Tragedy Movement

The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Library Tragedy Real Taste Leisure

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Truth Gold Strong Tragedy Away Acid

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

Pierre Corneille

Good Tragedy Realistic Must Subject

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Good Happiness Tragedy Living More

You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.

You Tragedy Everything Use

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.

Richard Flanagan

Political Tragedy Sydney Refugees

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.

Year Tragedy Go Hard Torch China

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Life Love Believe Tragedy Ready Up

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

Funny Face Think You Tragedy Kind

A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.

Tragedy Horrible Stories Lot

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

Great Country Tragedy True Spirit

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry David Thoreau

Words Silence Tragedy Human Begins

Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.

Jesse Kellerman

Purpose Comedy Tragedy Without

I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

Time Think Comedy Tragedy Drama Go

I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.

Selling Tragedy Place Want Real Off

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

I Am American Tragedy Said Living

Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.

Reality Comedy America Tragedy Take

Untangling Christmas lights is the true tragedy of 'Stranger Things.'

Tragedy Lights True Christmas Things

You don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to rush to help those in need.

Wait Help You Tragedy Need Rush

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