“I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.” — Rabelais 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
Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film. — Frances McDormand 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
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
“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.” — Lev Shestov 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even… — William Thomas Beckford 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
Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.… — Robert Higgs 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
“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
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“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
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![“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/i/b4e/maureen-corrigan-30260_academic_a-hilarious-academic-novel-that-ll-send_1173622.png)
![“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/i/bf9/samuel-beckett-365_farce_clov-why-this-farce-day-after-day-hamm-r_1195831.jpg)
![“[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the…” quote by William Thomas Beckford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a4/william-thomas-beckford-93528_atrocities_vathek-has-in-parts-been-called-but-to-s_668562.jpg)
![“It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control. [...] This idea that the government has services or…” quote by Ron Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec0/ron-paul-686_bankers_it-s-a-mistake-to-think-that-poor-people_1572601.png)
