Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“What is like chemistry?" "Well. Life." "It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...” — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Must this with farce and folly rack my head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song, Whine me dead?” — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script. — Jeff Foxworthy 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
It's hard to get people up and out to shows, but 'The Walworth Farce' has masses of energy and will attract a… — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as… — David Gross Copy Share Image
We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Meaning, yes -- I don't really exist except on the page or in the back of your brain. But if you think… — Kyle Michel Sullivan Copy Share Image
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a… — Abbie Hoffman 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
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks… — Bono Copy Share Image
A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel… — Henry James Sr Copy Share Image
Today our (Society of Jesus) prime educational objective must be to form men (and women) for others; men (and women) who will… — Pedro Arrupe Copy Share Image
“Clov: Why this farce, day after day? Hamm: Routine. One never knows. [Pause.] Last night I saw inside my breast. There was… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Believers often forget that most atheists used to be religious, that many non-believers used to think they had a personal relationship with… — David G. McAfee 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
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy.” — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions? — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
“Surely you know that whatever the play, the curtain always falls at the end.” — Bandi Copy Share Image
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
![“A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. . . . Like the best works of farce, academic or otherwise, Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage. By…” quote by Maureen Corrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4e/maureen-corrigan-30260_academic_a-hilarious-academic-novel-that-ll-send_1173622.jpg)
![“Clov: Why this farce, day after day? Hamm: Routine. One never knows. [Pause.] Last night I saw inside my breast. There was a big sore. Clov: Pah! You saw your heart. Hamm: No, it was living. [Pause. Anguished.] Clov! Clov: Yes. Hamm: What's happening? Clov: Something is taking its course. [Pause.]…” quote by Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bf9/samuel-beckett-365_habits_clov-why-this-farce-day-after-day-hamm-r_1195831.jpg)
