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Farce Quotes

John Mortimer quote: "Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute."
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. John Mortimer
George P. Baker quote: "Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as..."
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. George P. Baker
Jean Baudrillard quote: "History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats..."
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. Jean Baudrillard
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blas ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the... Charles Baudelaire
Why do I have a sense of impending disaster? (He reflects) Sonders is after my niece and has discovered the secret address where I am sending her to the safe keeping of my sister-in-law Miss Blumenblatt, who has never laid eyes on him, or, for that matter, on Marie either since she was a baby—while I have to leave my business in the charge of my assistant and an apprentice, and follow my new servant, whom I haven't had time to introduce to anyone, to town to join the parade and take my fiance... Tom Stoppard
…[T]he whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception, an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill-equipped are we all to envision one another’s interior workings and invisible aims? Is everyone to go off and lock the door and sit secluded like the lonely writers do, in a soundproof... Philip Roth
Laziness is almost as compelling as life. The new farce you're having to play crushes you with its banality, and all in all it takes more cowardice than courage to start all over again. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Paulo Freire quote: "To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to..."
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. Paulo Freire
Abraham Lincoln quote: "A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home."
A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home. Abraham Lincoln
Arthur Machen quote: "This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and..."
This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy. Arthur Machen
Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for your companion, confidant, and information bureau? What do you take me for? Am I an entertainer on salary, required every evening to play an intellectual farce under your stupid noses? Am I a slave, bought and paid for, to crawl on my belly in front of you idlers and lay at your feet all that I do and all that I know? Henry Miller
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
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
All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest. William Shakespeare
They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines." "Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce." "We need more special effects and dance numbers. Bill Watterson

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