Farce In Literature Quotes

#1. There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. Not to aim to show God is not to love, because God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end.

John Piper

#3. Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

Jean-Claude Izzo

#4. Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#5. The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

Lupe Fiasco

#6. ...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by what lies within the frame.

Sarah Ganz Blyth

#7. 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

#8. Everything mortal has moments immortal

Amy Lowell

#9. Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#10. It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

Libba Bray

#11. Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.

Clark Gable

#12. Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!
Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.

Tom Stoppard