Tragedies

Famous quotes containing the word tragedies:

“O comfort-killing night, image of hell,
Dim register and notary of shame,
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell,
Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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

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