Andrew Coyle Bradley Quotes

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

Hamlet is a little daunting.

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.

I read 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writer's ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Tragedy is a literary concept.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.