A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.