Top Farce Quotes

I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anything to do with it. Not without cunning, Fat Man and Little Boy gradually mutated...

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.' Wil...

Farce Definition

(v. t.) To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.

(v. t.) To render fat.

(v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.

(v. t.) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

(v. t.) A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.

(v. t.) Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce.

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional...

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

Remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

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

Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!