"Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible……" — George Pierce Baker
"Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible."
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George Pierce Baker
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17 Quotes by George Pierce Baker
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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action…
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But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
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Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
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In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and…
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In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in…
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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises…
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No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
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Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice…
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Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one…
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Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to…
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The drama is a great revealer of life.
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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to…
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More Farce Quotes
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one of 89 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
— Annie Besant
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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality.…
— Bono
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Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
— Jean Anouilh
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Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values.…
— Jacques Monod
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice.…
— Michael Shermer
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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals…
— L. Neil Smith
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over
— Francois Rabelais
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It is. But not as hard as farce.
— Edmund Gwenn
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The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.
— Charles E. McKenzie
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We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general…
— George Washington
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