Farce Quotes

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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. — Chuck Jones
The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce,… — Meles Zenawi
Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos.… — Edie Sedgwick
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that… — Unknown Author
Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the… — Robert Higgs
Is it not a noble farce, where kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast… — Michel de Montaigne
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. — John Mortimer
The [Nuremberg Trial was] the biggest legal farce in history... the legend about six million supposedly murdered Jews acquired a legal basis, even though the… — Rick Sanchez
Today our (Society of Jesus) prime educational objective must be to form men (and women) for others; men (and women) who will live not for… — Pedro Arrupe
These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing… — Peter Shaffer
Believers often forget that most atheists used to be religious, that many non-believers used to think they had a personal relationship with their God and… — David G. McAfee
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying. — Paul Laurence Dunbar
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and… — Elena Kagan
I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a… — Rupert Holmes
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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… — Ron Paul
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. — John Ratzenberger
Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose… — Michael Frayn

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