“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
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate… — George Gissing 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
The [Nuremberg Trial was] the biggest legal farce in history... the legend about six million supposedly murdered Jews acquired a legal basis,… — Rick Sanchez 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
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
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun… — Soren Kierkegaard 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've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in… — Donald Sinden 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
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
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
Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“What is like chemistry?" "Well. Life." "It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...” — William Golding Copy Share Image
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man,… — James Thurber 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
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
A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life… — David Foster Wallace 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
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
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