Top 33 Farce Quotes

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

I’ve always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I mean, I just did a thing for a small press called ‘Zeppelins West’ that’s nothing but an absolute, over-the-top farce, almost like an Abbott & Costello, alternate-universe Western.

Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it’s polished high comedy.

In low comedy, a character gets hit in the head, and you don’t really believe it. In farce, he’s hit in the head, but he must be hit in the head. The character requires it.

I’ve been very fortunate. I’ve been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce – I’ve been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the ‘ought’ from the ‘is.’ My point of view is that this is impossible; this is a farce.

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

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as 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.

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.

At one point I couldn’t move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I’d been completely inactive. Then they thought – because the pain was so much – I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It’s like a French farce.

I know people say plays are only an evening’s entertainment. But you can make it mean a lot to the audience, even a farce or comedy.

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’s hard to get people up and out to shows, but ‘The Walworth Farce’ has masses of energy and will attract a crowd who don’t always come to the theatre, which is great.

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.

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

It’s a tossup on whether WWE is going to insult your intelligence, religion or sexual preference. It’s become a joke and a farce.

Mubarak’s regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.

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.

If you’re looking for light entertainment, you can’t get much lighter than ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ a flyweight farce about the coming of rock n’ roll to small-town America.

People should know that the idea of legal fakes is a complete farce. It would be sad if a new generation thinks that’s actually legit.

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

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.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

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.

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

Notts County were League Two and they had they great plans. Things were happening and I was like ‘wow these guys are serious.’ It was a mad season because we were flying private jets to game. It was all a farce and I had signed a five-year contract.

Farce is a much-maligned form. It’s easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.

Growing up, I was a self-loathing Igor who carried the queen’s books. My job was to be the sarcastic sherpa, quietly providing the farce and adoration, then becoming part of the wall when cued.

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

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.

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.

Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.