Farce Quotes

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. Chuck Jones

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. Jean Anouilh

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. John Mortimer

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. V S Pritchett

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. Arthur Rimbaud

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Karl Marx

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. Francois Rabelais

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