Famous quotes containing the word tragic:
“Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“In tragic life, God wot,
No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:
We are betrayed by what is false within.”
—George Meredith (1828–1909)
“It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theater that only one man in it can count on steady work—the night watchman.”
—Tallulah Bankhead (1903–1968)