Quotes About Tragedy

Edgar—[Enter Edgar]and pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy: my cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam.

Iago: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.Desdemona: O most lame and impotent conclusion!

William Shakespeare

Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!

Macduff was from his mother's wombUntimely ripp'd.

Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd.

The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.

All my pretty ones?Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?What! all my pretty chickens and their damAt one fell swoop?

These violent delights have violent ends.

A pair of star-cross'd lovers.

One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.

O my prophetic soul!My uncle!

O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,That I am meek and gentle with these butchers;Thou art the ruins of the noblest manThat ever lived in the tide of times.

But yet the pity of it, Iago! O! Iago, the pity of it, Iago!

One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.

Hector is dead; there is no more to say.

William Shakespeare

Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

O! what a noble mind is here o'erthrown:The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword.

William Shakespeare

Very tragical mirth.

I shall laugh myself to death.

O! the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us.

William Shakespeare