Farce Quotes - Page 2

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

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.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home.

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

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.

The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

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.

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script.

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

Party politics is now a real farce.

Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

It is. But not as hard as farce.