Affirming Quote by Martin McDonagh

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are…

— Martin McDonagh

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of…

— Horace Walpole

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their…

— Oscar Wilde

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

— Barbara Stanwyck

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of…

— Leigh Hunt

The real world is cruel, but in the comfort of literature it can bring some light.

— Jeremy Limn

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of…

— Joseph Campbell

“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any character in…

— Flannery O'Connor

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

— Brendan Coyle

“Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist. It meets…

— Yiyun Li

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable…

— Paul Di Filippo

The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal…

— Christopher Fry