There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.
It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.
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.
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.
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
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.
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.
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