“Always be comic in a tragedy”
“Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?”
“There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.”
“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”
“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”
“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.”