Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.” — Rabelais 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
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to… — Horace Copy Share Image
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese… — Peter Shaffer 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
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
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
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural,… — John Dryden 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
I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school,… — Aidan Quinn Copy Share Image
It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating… — Cate Blanchett 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
On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“If we could learn to look instead of gawking, We'd see the horror in the heart of farce, If only we could… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter;… — Annie Besant 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
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
If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis… — Eric Bentley 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
“The most glorious ideas so often fail on the random cliff of tragic farce.” — Mynona Copy Share Image
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first… — Karl Marx 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
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a… — Henry Miller 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
