Critical Taper

Famous quotes containing the words critical and/or taper:

“A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Now sit we close about this taper here,
And call in question our necessities.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)