Top 143 Farce Quotes & Sayings

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Treating war as farce is one way soldiers deal with it.

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

Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

Party politics is now a real farce.

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

It's a tossup on whether WWE is going to insult your intelligence, religion or sexual preference. It's become a joke and a farce.

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

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

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

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

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.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

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

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

I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.

The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.

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

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

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.

It is. But not as hard as farce.

If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.

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

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

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

The idea that Donald Trump is a conservative is a complete farce. He is a conman who pretends to be a conservative.

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

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

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

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

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

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

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

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

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

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

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.

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

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.

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.

The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.

To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me as lookers-on, would be to describe the most dreary farce, to chronicle the most tautological twaddle. To take note of sighs, hand-squeezes, looks at the moon, and so forth--does this business become our dignity as historians? Come away from those foolish young people--they don't want us; and dreary as their farce is, and tautological as their twaddle, you may be sure it amuses them, and that they are happy enough without us.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

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.

I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible; this is a farce.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

I know people say plays are only an evening's entertainment. But you can make it mean a lot to the audience, even a farce or comedy.

Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

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.

The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

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

People should know that the idea of legal fakes is a complete farce. It would be sad if a new generation thinks that's actually legit.

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

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.