Farce Quotes

89 Farce quotes by 78 unique authors

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 Creationâ€™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: Iâ€™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
â€¦* 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 thatâ€™s why itâ€™s hard to… — Bill Watterson
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. — Jean Baudrillard
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. — Paulo Freire
The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummerâ€™s farce is almost done. My son is home. — George R. R. Martin
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the… — David Gross
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. — George Pierce Baker
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move… — George Pierce Baker

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