Top 27 Farce Comedy Quotes
#1. 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!
Noel Coward Sir
#2. I live in N.Y.C. and walk everywhere, so I like stylish shoes that are comfortable.
Vincent Piazza
#3. Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
Peter Shaffer
#4. An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.
Mary Deasy
#5. It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time." - Tallulah Bankhead
Debbie Macomber
#6. Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.
Mark Linn-Baker
#7. As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.
Sarah Dessen
#8. I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.
Donald Sinden
#9. We have it on good authority that they might disguise it as a double entendre in a bedroom farce and deliver it up the rear entrance at Comedy.
Jasper Fforde
#10. Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.
Daniel Prokop
#11. What the hell? Die in a fire, youth. Die in a fire.
Wataru Watari
#12. Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.
Irving Howe
#13. I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.
Peter O'Toole
#14. The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey ... there's one guy holding up both!
Bill Hicks
#15. A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
Abraham Lincoln
#16. Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.
W. Somerset Maugham
#17. Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
Dick Cavett
#18. As soon as the patient stops fighting his obsessions and instead tries to ridicule them by dealing with them in an ironic way - by applying paradoxical intention - the vicious circle is cut, the symptom diminishes and finally atrophies.
Viktor E. Frankl
#20. Work is the greatest thing in the world. So we should save some of it for tomorrow.
Don Herold
#21. Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.
Tom T. Hall
#22. Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Chuck Jones
#23. In low comedy, a character gets hit in the head, and you don't really believe it. In farce, he's hit in the head, but he must be hit in the head. The character requires it.
Mark Linn-Baker
#24. I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.
Rupert Holmes
#25. An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology
Jodi Picoult
#26. Meaning, yes
I don't really exist except on the page or in the back of your brain. But if you think it's weird a fictional character's telling this story, you ain't seen what happened, yet.
Kyle Michel Sullivan
#27. Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.
Charles Scott Sherrington
