Top Farce Quotes

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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!