Famous quotes containing the word tragic:
“The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.”
—V.S. (Victor Sawdon)
“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“Yea, this man’s brow, like to a title-leaf,
Foretells the nature of a tragic volume.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)