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

"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…"

"The tragic right is a condition of life, a condition in which the human personality is able to flower and realize its…"

"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…"

"These struggles have got to result in happy endings for all, and the readers must learn not to worship tragedy as the…"