Tragicomedy In Literature Quotes & Sayings

I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd fix. — Tony Campolo

Bis vincit qui se vincit - he conquers twice who conquers himself — Publilius Syrus

The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than himself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies? — Samuel Johnson

The very effect of the education they were given ... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received. — John Grierson

Somewhere in the world there is a magical book. What does this book do? It simply changes itself to become the book you most need at this point in your life. — Scarlett Thomas

When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.' — Heber J. Grant

The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd stare at an animal. She pretended not to notice. To remind them she was a person was too much effort. Objects bore no guilt. — Janet Fitch

You can't take my joy, because you didn't give it to me — Monica Denise Brown

I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly. — Gene Weingarten