Quotes by Farce On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough. Anthony Powell farce everyday life Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. Arthur Rimbaud farce life-is life Life is the farce we are all forced to endure. Arthur Rimbaud farce endure life-is Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid. Benedict Cumberbatch farce theatre school We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church. Charles Caleb Colton farce church age Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. Chuck Jones farce real people Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End. Cyril Smith farce west running Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now. D. H. Lawrence farce tragedy giving Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools. David Gemmell farce fool stupid It is. But not as hard as farce. Edmund Gwenn farce last-words hard Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. Edward McKendree Bounds farce prayer believe Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes. Eric Bentley farce wish dream Bring down the curtain, the farce is over Francois Rabelais farce curtains funny I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. Francois Rabelais farce nature death 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 farce fate laughter Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. George P. Baker farce treats impossible Party politics is now a real farce. George Sand farce party real The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home. George R. R. Martin farce home son 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. Helmut Jahn farce chinese people He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals Henry Miller farce leprosy saws 123»