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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. -- John Mortimer
Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me. -- Trish Stratus
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. -- John Ratzenberger
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. -- Arthur Rimbaud
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. -- Karl Marx
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. -- George Pierce Baker
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. -- Francois Rabelais
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. -- Jean Anouilh
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. -- Chuck Jones
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. -- Mark Twain
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. -- Steven Weinberg
You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction. -- Helmut Jahn
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public. -- Elena Kagan
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play. -- Peter Shaffer
I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy. -- Rupert Holmes
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. -- James Thurber
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else. -- Bono
Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime. -- Annie Besant
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. -- George Pierce Baker
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. -- Jean Baudrillard
I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Party politics is now a real farce. -- George Sand
Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End. -- Cyril Smith
The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act... -- Thomas Paine
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. -- James Madison
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph. -- David Gross
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. -- Karl Marx
I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big. -- Aidan Quinn
Is it not a noble farce, where kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre? -- Michel de Montaigne
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy. -- Dick Cavett
The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody. -- Lysander Spooner
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: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce. -- Michael Shermer
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be! -- William Morris Hunt
It is. But not as hard as farce. -- Edmund Gwenn
Life is too serious to do farce comedy -- Buster Keaton
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over -- Francois Rabelais
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure. -- Arthur Rimbaud
What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce. -- Katherine Paterson
Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene. -- Horace Walpole
Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce. -- Oscar Wilde
A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home. -- Abraham Lincoln
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. -- Francois Rabelais
Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools. -- David Gemmell
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life. -- Samuel Johnson
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. -- Charles E. McKenzie
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too. -- Irving Howe
The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous triteThe storybook is blank insideChivalry has died -- Donato DiCristino
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy. -- Daniel Prokop
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done. My son is home. -- George R. R. Martin
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy -- Anthony Powell
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy. -- Anthony Powell
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
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. -- Paulo Freire
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie." -- Paulo Freire
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
The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing. -- Lorrie Moore
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
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
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
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
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. -- Horace
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
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
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
If you're looking for light entertainment, you can't get much lighter than 'Bye Bye Birdie,' a flyweight farce about the coming of rock n' roll to small-town America. -- Terry Teachout
Cause I'll know my weakness, know my voice. And I'll believe in grace and choice. And I know perhaps my heart is farce, But I'll be born without a mask. -- Mumford and Sons
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops. -- Charles Scott Sherrington
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. -- George Pierce Baker
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. -- George Pierce Baker
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals -- Henry Miller
So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought. -- Vance Havner
I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus. -- Donald Sinden
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 inspection process and all the rigmarole surrounding it a total farce. -- Rush Limbaugh
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce. -- Oscar Wilde

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