Quotes Tagged With :melodrama

It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic....

Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things....

German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything:....

My first kiss I regret. My first date I regret. But I do not regret the choice to say I love you for....

He called me his 'dream.' I guess now I've become his nightmare.

Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character....

Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter.....

The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized....

Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria.....