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Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.
— Daniel Prokop
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
— John Mortimer
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
— Jean Anouilh
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
— Arthur Rimbaud
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The crowd-pleasing, pilfered genre had mated with democracy and produced a seemingly invincible bastard: government by force of farce.
— David James Duncan
People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.
— Michael Ondaatje
Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
— Horace Walpole
The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.
— Lorrie Moore
It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
— Mary Shelley
A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
— Abraham Lincoln
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
— George Pierce Baker
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
— Jean Baudrillard
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
— Paulo Freire
Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.
— Trish Stratus
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
— Chuck Jones
Coupling is frenzy; decoupling is farce.
— David Mitchell
Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.
— David Gemmell
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
We have it on good authority that they might disguise it as a double entendre in a bedroom farce and deliver it up the rear entrance at Comedy.
— Jasper Fforde
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.
— Anthony Powell
Or was the entire idea of the "gentleman" a farce?
— Tiffany Reisz
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.
— Irving Howe
Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.
— Mark Linn-Baker
Must this with farce and folly rack my
head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,
Whine me dead? — Juvenal
head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,
Whine me dead? — Juvenal
Then why go through this farce?" "Just like hell has multiple levels, so does disgrace.
— Denise Grover Swank
The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud
a farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino
a farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino
I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.
— Francois Rabelais