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  • Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

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

    Air   Farce   Three  
  • Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

    School   Theatre   Farce  
    "Why do women go nuts for me? Benedict Cumberbatch on his weird life as a sex symbol" by John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2012.
  • 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?

    Kings   Age   Theatre  
    "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
  • Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

    Farce   Life Is   Endure  
    "A Season in Hell". Book by Arthur Rimbaud, 1873.
  • 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.

    Funny   Humor   Keys  
    V.S. Pritchett (2011). “In My Good Books”, p.42, A&C Black
  • So on the Tuesday night deadline, while Abu Qatada was appealing to European Court judges, the Home Secretary, who thought the deadline was Monday night, was partying with "X Factor" judges. When the Home Secretary is accused of not knowing what day of the week it is, confusion and chaos have turned into farce.

    Monday   Party   Home  
    Yvette Cooper during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. April 19, 2012.
  • 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.

    Animal   Men   Law  
    James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”
  • 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.

    Life   Education   Money  
    Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press
  • Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

    Running   Farce   West  
    On the House of Commons, in 'Big Cyril' (1977) ch. 8
  • Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

    Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”
  • Believers often forget that most atheists used to be religious, that many non-believers used to think they had a personal relationship with their God and they used to 'feel' the power of prayer. They've since learned that it was all a farce, that their feelings were internal emotions and not some external force.

    FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Oct 27, 2012
  • I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.

    Doors   Space   People  
  • 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 evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

    Meaningful   Air   Issues  
    "Panel on Obama's Nomination of Elena Kagan to Replace Justice Stevens on Supreme Court". "Special Report With Bret Baier", www.foxnews.com. May 10, 2010.
  • Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs preselected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion of willing accomplices and anointed lickspittles who perpetrate the countless violations of the people's natural rights. Meanwhile, the masters soothe the masses by assuring them night and day that they - the plundered and bullied multitudes who compose the electorate - are themselves the government.

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

    Lorrie Moore (2012). “Who Will Run the Frog Hospital”, p.4, Vintage
  • Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

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

    Funny   Humor   Ideas  
    John Mortimer (2010). “CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE”, p.241, Penguin UK
  • A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

    Humor   Farce   Doe  
  • Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.

    Play   Numbers   Special  
    "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.
  • Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

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

    Prayer   Believe   Farce  
  • Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

    Tragedy   Farce   Doe  
    Julian Barnes (2010). “A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters”, p.241, Random House
  • It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control... This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.

    Television interview, 1987.
  • Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

    Dream   Wish   Farce  
  • 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.

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

    Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1858). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.452
  • Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

    Mind   Farce   Comedy  
    W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.142, Random House
  • The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report.

    Lying   Views   Garbage  
  • 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.

    Love   Moon   Hands  
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1873). “Works”, p.292
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