Farce Quotes

89 Farce quotes by 78 unique authors

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
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and… — Steven Weinberg
All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game.… — William Shakespeare
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about… — Oscar Wilde
Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my… — Henry Miller
The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing. — Lorrie Moore
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it… — Pascal Mercier
Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which… — Ivan Turgenev
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure. — Arthur Rimbaud
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy,… — Henry Miller
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a… — Paulo Freire
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let… — D. H. Lawrence
…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little.… — Sylvia Plath
They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines." "Maybe that’s why it’s hard to… — Bill Watterson
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. — Jean Baudrillard

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