Acting Quote by Horace

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

— Horace Walpole

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

— John Mortimer

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush…

— Judith Viorst

“many souls in their young nudity are tumbled out among incongruities and left to ‘find their feet’ among them, while their elders go about…

— George Eliot

“All my romances, by some kind of collusion between their heroes, have invariably followed a prearranged pattern of mediocrity and tragedy, or more precisely,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy…

— Joseph Addison

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of…

— Jean Racine

The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help but dance…

— Margaret Prescott Montague

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

— William Davenant

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream…

— Stephen King

“I loathe the grading of tragedy and the jostling for pre-eminence amongst the bereaved, that most disgusting example of the disgusting habit of claiming…

— Catriona McPherson