Farce Quotes

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

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.