Farce famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
-- Chuck Jones -
Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.
-- Cyril Smith -
Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.
-- Eric Bentley -
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.
-- George Gissing -
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.
-- Irving Howe -
I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script.
-- Jeff Foxworthy -
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.
-- John Dryden -
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
-- John Mortimer -
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
-- John Ratzenberger -
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
-- George P. Baker
