Farce Quotes

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

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.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

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.

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.

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

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.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

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.

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.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.

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.

The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.

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.

It is. But not as hard as farce.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.

I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script.

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.

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

Party politics is now a real farce.

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.