27 Quotes About Melodrama

No, my love. I would take sweet respite from my duties to scent burning flesh on the wind. Come, my subjects!

The Man of A Thousand Faces… I can see each one in this shard.

Take me not for a dullard, My Lord. She has no baggage.

Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist. It meets no one's expectation but its internal need to feel.

And who with any theatrical sense doesn’t like a little crazy?

[...] life had once again, perversely, refused to remain life-sized. It had turned melodramatic: and that embarrassed him.

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

He broke away and hurried off. All that he had said had been spoken in a voice so low that only Sir Simon could have heard him. Yet the intensity in his voice had been terrific. Sir Simon felt as if an iron door had been suddenly flung open and had let out a red-hot blast from a furnace.

When people look at me, they automatically assume I'm dark and weird. Why can't they see the truth? I'm just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.