Farce Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image “The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Farce Religion
each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the… — Eloise Lownsbery Copy Share Image
As an audience, if you see 1800s or something, it more often seems that the actors are carrying the weight of the time. It… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
I hardly ever see new plays. They don't have the audacity and daring that they used to. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
Be not the first to take up the new, nor the last to cast the old aside. — Havilah Babcock Copy Share Image
In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I don't care more about '13' because it's in the Olivier than I did about 'Cock' in a 100-seat studio. They both matter because… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine 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
