Farce Quote by John Mortimer Download Open image “Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.” — John Mortimer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Farce Minutes Revolution Theatre Thousand Tragedy
“The most glorious ideas so often fail on the random cliff of tragic farce.” — Mynona Copy Share Image
If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add:… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire. — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
“Why are revolutions so rare? Why do the masses sometimes clap and cheer for centuries on end, doing everything the man on the balcony… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“And in winter, under my greatcoat, I wrapped myself in swathes of newspaper, and did not shed them until the earth awoke, for good,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Take sex, for instance.' 'What do you want me to do with it?' 'Try to be serious for a moment. Take the sex life… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Voting Liberal is a non-thing. Historically, it might be a good idea to have a Conservative government, because change is a good thing. But… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I try and treat my children from the age of ten months as if they were totally grown up, which I think is the… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is;… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that the Iraqis are not telling us anything we don't already know or can't prove. This is what makes this whole… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a… — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
