The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is. — Mario Monicelli Copy Share Image
“It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I,… — Emily Henry Copy Share Image
From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
We were making 'Tragic Kingdom,' and we were kind of battling with the record company. It was just being drawn-out, in the… — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's easy to forget, given her scandal-tinged life and tragic death, how incredibly talented Whitney Houston was. She holds the world record… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been… — Patsy Kensit Copy Share Image
The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded… — Munir Butt Copy Share Image
As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
“In that one moment, I wrapped a thousand others. A lifetime of joy, sorrow, laughter, frowns, smiles, tears... life!” — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents. — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
Life is full of moments that are good - winning a lottery, seeing a beautiful woman, a great dinner - but the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life. — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Twenty-nine years old and on her third masters degree because she’s afraid to go out and meet the world. Sad, isn’t it?”… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and… — Rae Hachton Copy Share Image
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image