Farce Quotes

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

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.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

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.

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

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

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

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.

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.

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

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.

The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.