Farce Quotes
89 quotes by 79 authors
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly…
— Annie Besant
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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It…
— Bono
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Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
— Jean Anouilh
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Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values…
— Jacques Monod
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the…
— Michael Shermer
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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically…
— L. Neil Smith
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over
— Francois Rabelais
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It is. But not as hard as farce.
— Edmund Gwenn
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The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.
— Charles E. McKenzie
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We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation,…
— George Washington
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
— Francois Rabelais
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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
— Oscar Wilde
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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, it doesn't mean…
— Aidan Quinn
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Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps,…
— Julian Barnes
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy,…
— Karl Marx
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Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.…
— Emile M. Cioran
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In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that…
— H. L. Mencken
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Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
— George Gissing
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