--- title: "1 Theater Holiday Quotes By Alfred Jarry" description: "1 Theater Holiday quotes by Alfred Jarry. Plus more from Alfred Jarry and more Theater Holiday sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef8/alfred-jarry-19850_first-place_what-is-a-play-a-public-holiday-a-lesson_1876132.jpg" --- > [“What is a play? A public holiday? A lesson? A pastime? In the first place it might seem that a play ought to be a kind of public holiday, being a show put on for a crowd of citizens gathered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/what-is-a-play-a-public-holiday-a-lesson-a-pastime-in-the-first-place/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef8/alfred-jarry-19850_first-place_what-is-a-play-a-public-holiday-a-lesson_1876132.jpg) ## More by Alfred Jarry > [“The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/the-theater-bringing-impersonal-masks-to-life-is-only-for-those-who/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [To be weird! That is my goal!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/to-be-weird-that-is-my-goal/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/applause-that-comes-thundering-with-such-force-you-might-think-the/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/anti-alcoholics-are-unfortunates-in-the-grip-of-water-that-terrible/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/god-is-the-shortest-distance-from-zero-to-infinity/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/you-re-looking-exceptionally-ugly-tonight-madam-is-it-because-we-have/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [“If we want to lower ourselves to the level of the public there are two things we can do for them--and which are done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/if-we-want-to-lower-ourselves-to-the-level-of-the-public-there-are/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/dieu-est-le-point-tangent-de-ze-ro-et-de-l-infini-god-is-the/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/it-is-conventional-to-call-monster-any-blending-of-dissonant-elements/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [“Writing a part with the talents of a particular actor in mind is the method most likely to result in ephemeral plays: for, once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/writing-a-part-with-the-talents-of-a-particular-actor-in-mind-is-the/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [“The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/the-virtue-of-dress-rehearsals-is-that-they-are-a-free-show-for-a/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/one-can-show-one-s-contempt-for-the-cruelty-and-stupidity-of-the/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/it-is-because-the-public-are-a-mass-inert-obtuse-and-passive-that/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/the-virtue-of-dress-rehearsals-is-that-they-are-a-free-show-for-a-2/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) > [The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-jarry/the-applause-of-silence-is-the-only-kind-that-counts/) [Alfred Jarry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-jarry/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/theater-holiday/alfred-jarry/#itemlist", "name": "1 Theater Holiday Quotes By Alfred Jarry", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What is a play? 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