Oscar Wilde Quotes, Class Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

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Humor is tragedy plus time.

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I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

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I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students away from core values of civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. Students who have been led to believe by university administrators and faculty that censorship and denial of due process are acceptable norms will be more susceptible to accepting those norms in their post-university lives. That would be a tragedy for America.

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However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

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There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.

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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

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Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

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