“Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.” — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes. — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me. — Trish Stratus Copy Share Image
It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“We have it on good authority that they might disguise it as a double entendre in a bedroom farce and deliver it… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Love is a farce; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders,--sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they are… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Art happens no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that the Iraqis are not telling us anything we don't already know or can't prove. This is what makes… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Life is pure farce from beginning to end, with a little black comedy thrown in for shade. If it was anything else,… — Minette Walters Copy Share Image
The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse… — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
“Time and judgment collaborate to produce farce, and farce in turn contains much truth; major characters upon the stage may turn out… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Why do I have a sense of impending disaster? (He reflects) Sonders is after my niece and has discovered the secret address… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Drama and comedy are the polite genres, founded on collectively agreed-upon ideas, perceptions and truths. But life, as subjectively experienced, is not… — Mick LaSalle Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
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