Life is a tragedy. [ Sir W. Raleigh ]

Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels. [ Horace Walpole ]

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. [ Horace Walpole ]

To be in society is merely a bore, but to be out of it simply a tragedy. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

All women become like their mothers - that is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

That one man should die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy. [ Carlyle ]

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. [ Carlyle ]

Marriage is often the denouement of comedies and novels; tragedy is often the denouement of marriage. [ De Finod ]

Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man. [ John Morley ]

The Soul is born old, but it grows young; that is the comedy of life. The Body is born young and grows old; that is Life's tragedy. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst ; the last is a real tragedy! [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds, - epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it. [ Emerson ]

The tragedy of Hamlet is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of Hamlet is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater. [ G. A. Sala ]

There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of the beautiful. All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste without respect to the object. They purify the thoughts as tragedy purifies the passions. Their accidental effects are not worth consideration, - there are souls to whom even a vestal is not holy. [ Schlegel ]