To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. — Paulo Freire 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
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
“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.” — Abraham Lincoln 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
Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film. — Frances McDormand 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
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
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
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
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
Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the… — Paul Laurence Dunbar 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
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
I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence.… — Pascal Mercier 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
Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my… — Henry Miller 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
For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.” — Rabelais Copy Share Image
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“The world has always been the same - An endless farce, an antic game, A universal masquerade!” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. — Chuck Jones 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
“In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.” — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
“Surely you know that whatever the play, the curtain always falls at the end.” — Bandi Copy Share Image
“The most glorious ideas so often fail on the random cliff of tragic farce.” — Mynona 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
I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may… — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Oh, hell." He landed beside me, soft-footed on the pine needles. "This is beginning to have all the elements of a farce,… — Mary Stewart 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 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)
![“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)
