"The possibility of victory must be there in tragedy. Where pathos rules, where pathos is finally derived, a character…"

"Gorgias called tragedy a deception wherein he who deceives is more honest than he who does not deceive, and he who is…"

"Tragedy springs from outrage; it protests at the conditions of life. It carries in it the possibilities of disorder, …"

"A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe tempo…"

"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel."

"In this age few tragedies are written. It has often been held that the lack is due to a paucity of heroes among us, o…"

"I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his li…"

"Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. No tragedy can therefore …"

"There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations w…"

"The legacy of modernity is a legacy of fratricidal wars, devastating "development," cruel "civilization," and previou…"