I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the…

“Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out.”

— Francois Rabelais

“I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.”

— Rabelais

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

— Francois Rabelais

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of…

— Peter Shaffer

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

— Paul Gauguin

I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open…

— Pablo Picasso

We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.

— William Shakespeare

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

— Bobby Fischer

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

— Francois Rabelais

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…

— Rush Limbaugh

I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is;…

— Jacques Monod

As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has…

— Mark Colvin

“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.”

— Lev Shestov

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

— John Mortimer