George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Tragedy

• Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Wisdom, Philosophical

• The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drama, Light, Tragedy

• A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sex, Tragedy, Novelists

• A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fun, Drama, Taken

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