Farce Quotes
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Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.
— Mark Linn-Baker
I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script.
— Jeff Foxworthy
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
— Francois Rabelais
Bring down the curtain,the farce is played out. — Francois Rabelais
Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.
— Daniel Prokop
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
— Paulo Freire
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
— Arthur Rimbaud
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
— John Mortimer
It is. But not as hard as farce.
— Edmund Gwenn
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
— Abbie Hoffman
I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.
— Peter O'Toole
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The whole world is a farce, needless to say. Who can escape that?
— Haruki Murakami
Tragedies in hindsight look like farces.
— Julian Barnes
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.
— Charles E. McKenzie
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
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
— Francois Rabelais
O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
— Michel De Montaigne
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
— Samuel Johnson
A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
— Abraham Lincoln
In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.
— Nora Raleigh Baskin
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
— Mark Twain
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over
— Francois Rabelais
Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.
— Cyril Smith
This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy.
— Arthur Machen
If someone would have the goodness to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful,
— Georgette Heyer
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
— George Gissing
Party politics is now a real farce.
— George Sand
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coupling is frenzy; decoupling is farce.
— David Mitchell
I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.
— Francois Rabelais
The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino
Then why go through this farce?" "Just like hell has multiple levels, so does disgrace.
— Denise Grover Swank
Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,
Whine me dead? — Juvenal
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
Or was the entire idea of the "gentleman" a farce?
— Tiffany Reisz
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.
— Anthony Powell
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
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
Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.
— David Gemmell
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
Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
— Horace Walpole
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
Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.
— Trish Stratus
I recognised uneasily the hand of what I sometimes thought to be my personal nemesis, the spirit of farce.
— William Golding
What the hell? Die in a fire, youth. Die in a fire.
— Wataru Watari
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
— Chuck Jones
Thunder, showers hit Blue Earth.Gape at her, bloody, broken parts,
can you track her clouds -
a clever farce of sky and sun — J.M.K. Walkow
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
— John Ratzenberger