"Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions……" — John Mortimer
"Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute."
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45 Quotes by John Mortimer
John Mortimer has 45 quotes on this site.
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life,…
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I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and…
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What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.
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Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.
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I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the…
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Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
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We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.
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The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely…
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To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
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The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
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I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the…
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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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