German Tragic Drama

Famous quotes containing the words german, tragic and/or drama:

    “Some of us prefer Austrian voices risen in song to ugly German threats.”
    —Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)

    “America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it’s tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn’t solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it’s still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?”
    —Golda Meir (1898–1978)

    “Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)