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

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

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

— Lev Shestov

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

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

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

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

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

— Jean Baudrillard

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

— Horace Walpole

Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy

— Anthony Powell

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

— John Ratzenberger

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

— Charles E. McKenzie

The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a…

— Meles Zenawi

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

— Cyril Smith

“Meaning, yes -- I don't really exist except on the page or in the back of your brain. But if you think it's weird…

— Kyle Michel Sullivan

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we…

— Anonymous