Famous quotes containing the word tragic:
“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and televisionwith the communication media. I dont think the press has understood me.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)
“Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
—Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)
“In tragic life, God wot,
No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:
We are betrayed by what is false within.”
—George Meredith (18281909)