Greek tragedy Quote by Anne Lamott

“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have…

— Oscar Wilde

“In theater, that's the whole thing about Greek tragedy. You take the audience through the—like, the realest shit, the tearing out the eyes or…

— Riley Redgate

“That’s the way Greek drama worked.”

— Josephine Angelini

“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“the essence of tragedy is time, or rather the lack of it. There is no problem in any Greek tragedy that could not have…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“I know I am playing out some tragic Greek play and I´m horrified, but the show must go on.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“If the Greeks were—as they were indeed—a brilliant people, they were individualistic to a fault, and concerned with the fate and fortune of themselves…

— Ernle Bradford

“I’ve always liked it about the Greeks that they kept the violence off the stage.”

— Donna Leon

“Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.”

— John Fowles

“All right, she thought I was a funny little geezer, but my charred Phaethon had impressed her, I was very obviously available, and she…

— Cees Nooteboom

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

— Curt Flood

“But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.”

— William Shakespeare