Farce Quotes

89 quotes by 79 authors

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
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
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. — Edward McKendree Bounds
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
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
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
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
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over — Francois Rabelais
It is. But not as hard as farce. — Edmund Gwenn
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. — Charles E. McKenzie
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
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. — Francois Rabelais
Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
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
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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