Tragedies

Famous quotes containing the word tragedies:

“All tragedies are finished by a death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent—or they themselves—was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)

“It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)