Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.
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 tra...
Who was it who said, "I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish?" Whoever it was, I agree with him.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to change the mindset which has tended to create ad hoc solutions for the political madness and social farce. In fact, our age of tragedy which has been represented by the so-called “Marxists” in the Sinhal...
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
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.
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
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.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Must this with farce and folly rack my head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song, Whine me dead?
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
