I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not necessarily in ….

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny..

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved..

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary..

Capitalism is based on the principle that everything has to be privately owned; it can't be held in common. There is even a dogma, which is today cal….

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. ….

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy..

We learn from tragedy. Slowly..

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches..

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy..

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut..

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member..

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy..

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened..

One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and ….

The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people..

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first..

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the v….