Quotes About Farce

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.

This body of ours, this disguise put on by common jumping molecules, is in constant revolt against the abominable farce of having to endure. Our molecules, the dears, want to get lost in the universe as fast as they can! It makes them miserable to be nothing but us, the jerks of infinity.

In the heyday of the campus novel "you could afford farce," explains A.S. Byatt, because universities were intensely hopeful, whereas "now they're terrified and cowering and underfinanced and overexamined and overbureaucratised" (qtd. in Edemariam 34).

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

History repeats itself. The first time as tragedy. The second time as farce. The third time as tourist trap.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'Merry Wives of Windsor' is a wonderful machine. It's one of the great farces, and it's astonishing to remember that this is written by the same man who wrote 'Hamlet,' 'The Taming of the Shrew' or 'Cymbeline.' It's so similar, and yet the form is so different.

I could hear my dogs barking. Worse I could hear bleating. Joyful goat chuckles of freedom. "The goats!" I clutched my head, an absurdly melodramatic reaction suited to this farce. "The goats were in the tree!" "The... Wait, what?

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.

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

The original Marx quote (rough) History repeats twice, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. The addition by Leonard; Technology repeats twice, the first time as farce, and the second as tragedy

This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy.

La vie est la farce à mener par tous.

Woody Allen's sense of humour has always attracted me, and I love the way he can make life so meaningful and yet show us what a farce it can be at the same time.

The exaggerated dramatic force employed by Umfraville in presenting his narrative made it hard to know what demeanour best to adopt in listening to the story. Tragedy might at any moment give way to farce, so that the listener had always to keep his wits about him.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

Yes, madam, I am finished. My star has fallen. I work and I try, yet know that all is but a farce.... I await the end of the tragedy and – strangely detached from everything – I do not feel any more an actor. I feel I am the last of spectators.

The kidney was removed with great skill. We have an image of the kidney taken from that broadcast. Viewers are advised that the following image is quite graphic, and- I am getting so sick of looking at this kidney, I said. It's a farce, Jazza replied. They act like they're shocked and horrified, and then they show it off twenty times a day. Have you seen the singing kidney video? I asked. Ugh. No. It's really funny. You should watch it.

While farce and tragedy have always been foils for each other, it is rare, she maintains, other than in works of Russian and southern literature, that they are superimposed one upon the other so that their effects are experienced simultaneously.

I am the star in my own Shakespearean farce, never managing to sleep with one woman without wanting the other. The gods of sex and irony are playing hockey, and I am their unwitting puck.

Bouvard thought: 'Ah, progress, what a farce!' He added: 'And politics, what a filthy mess!'