Farce Quotes

89 Farce quotes by 78 unique authors

Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a… — William Morris Hunt
Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources for Holocaust stories.… — David Duke
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. — Francois Rabelais
Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes. — Eric Bentley
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly. — W. Somerset Maugham
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too. — Irving Howe
On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either… — Anthony Powell
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will… — Charles Scott Sherrington
You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with… — Helmut Jahn
So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama,… — Dick Cavett
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. — Horace
To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. — Karl Marx
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. — Arthur Rimbaud
The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole… — Lysander Spooner
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers… — James Thurber
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. — Mark Twain

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