Farce Quotes
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.
Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.
So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.
You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.
O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home.
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.
People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
Keep in mind that the Iraqis are not telling us anything we don't already know or can't prove. This is what makes this whole inspection process and all the rigmarole surrounding it a total farce.
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
