Farce Quote by David Gemmell

“Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.”

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Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

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“It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the high sounding words and…

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Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a man twenty…

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I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished,…

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When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

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When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.

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I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The…

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“Listen...You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create…

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We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there…

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It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing;…

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I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

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If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

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History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

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Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

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Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy

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A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

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The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

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