Famous quotes containing the word tragic:
“Yea, this mans brow, like to a title-leaf,
Foretells the nature of a tragic volume.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.”
—Constance Rourke (18851941)
“Its one of the tragic ironies of the theater that only one man in it can count on steady workthe night watchman.”
—Tallulah Bankhead (19031968)