A Quote by Edith Wharton

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

Edith Wharton

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Comic Mask Nothing Than Tragedy Wears

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Edith Wharton
American - Novelist
January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937

I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like its crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like its laughing. Nowadays, we would say, How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.

Gilbert Gottfried

I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'

Gilbert Gottfried

Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.

Robert H. Schuller

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Edith Hamilton

The way that I live is in between the dual experiences of the tragedy mask and the comedy mask. I feel that I write best and think best in between those two masks.

Mike O'Malley

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

Neal Stephenson

Anybody who wears a mask is scared.

Gump Worsley

The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower!

Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

George Orwell

The one time of year when everyone wears a mask... not just me.

Nick Carter

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Erich Fromm

Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.

Minna Antrim

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

Washington Irving

A comic book and a straight drama all have the same elements. If you're playing tragedy, you have to be aware of the comedy; if you're playing comedy, you have to be aware of the tragedy. If you're playing comic book, you have to be aware of the reality.

Jeremy Irons

The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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