“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
“The world has always been the same - An endless farce, an antic game, A universal masquerade!” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people,… — Edie Sedgwick 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
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
So on the Tuesday night deadline, while Abu Qatada was appealing to European Court judges, the Home Secretary, who thought the deadline… — Yvette Cooper Copy Share Image
As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by… — Bill McKibben 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
We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act… — George Washington 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
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
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
Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“And does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?No, that’s too grand, too considered a process.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines." "Maybe that’s why… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a… — Oscar Wilde 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
Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes. — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film. — Frances McDormand 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