Quote by A.A. Gill Download Open image ““There is no tragedy so utter that a Belgian, with the best will in the world, can’t make worse.”” — A.A. Gill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“he explains that tragedy’s most cruel lesson is not that human beings are flawed, or that fate can be unkind, but that no one… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“You said, ‘Life is a tragedy, but its meaning lies in how we face the tragedy.” — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
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“It’s a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent.” — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“there are no winners in a tragedy, only people struggling to survive the aftermath.” — Ruth Cardello Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Disasters are an opportunity for the worst of humanity. And the best.” — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“I told them this was their language, this English, this most marvellous and expressive cloak of meaning and imagination. This great, exclamatory, illuminating song,… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Accent is the last great redoubt of prejudice. The race relations industry, that inquisition of fairness and sensitivity, doesn't protect against discrimination by funny… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“The only type of humor that is excused lower classness is satire, and satire is the chamber music of comedy - a joke that… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows exactly where the first chickens were domesticated – India, China, Thailand, Vietnam – somewhere around 10,000 years ago, which is to say… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“There was a powerful and effulgent smell of industrial disinfectant. It's a smell that never reassures you about cleanliness; rather, it makes you doubly… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“The Gulf is the proof of Carnegie’s warning about wealth: ‘There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Ronald Reagan was a man who knew the diplomatic form. He also had a showman’s ear for a tune. So when, at an official… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Down a winding cobbled street from the church trips the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, the most evocative and strangely dramatic of all morris dances,… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Trojan is giving away Magnum large condoms (do you think they were named after a large wooden animal inside which thousands of little men… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“It must be said that almost all primitive people think themselves divinely wrought, singled out and special. Often their names translate simply as "the… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image