Top 39 Farcical Quotes
#1. Words are words, but the way an actor says them, the way it's framed, puts you either in the world that looks a lot like ours or one that doesn't seem a lot like ours, one that can be farcical or one that can't.
Peter Sarsgaard
#2. Nobody is here without a reason ... I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always
wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.
Lily Tomlin
#3. The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'
Rick Perlstein
#4. That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.
Manu Joseph
#5. There is a lot of kissing in 'Boeing-Boeing.' A lot! And not pecks on the cheek or lips - although there's some of that, too - but full-on, farcical lip locks. My poor husband. He definitely wasn't prepared for as much smooching as there is.
Kathryn Hahn
#6. Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.
John Irving
#7. The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved an egregious disappointment. "The whole thing is half melancholy, half farcical," he groaned, "like all the rest of the world.
Michael B. Oren
#8. Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.
H.L. Mencken
#9. There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment of tragedy; the farcical is but a cloak for coming catastrophe.
Gabriel Chevallier
#10. The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.
Ravi Zacharias
#11. The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
Isaac D'Israeli
#12. Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
Henrik Ibsen
#14. Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.
Philip Roth
#15. The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.
Maureen Corrigan
#16. But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#17. '50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#18. How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.
Jean-Paul Marat
#19. The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.
John Dewey
#20. Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.
Kevin Kline
#21. Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making fine messes as we go, but when you get close, the ridiculous quickly fades into the sordid or the tragic or the merely sad. [p. 73]
Siri Hustvedt
#22. If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie.
Leonard Maltin
#23. It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning.
Steven Weinberg
#24. I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.
Jack Kerouac
#25. Listen
strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Michael Palin
#26. One of the most corrosive aspects of the criminal justice system is its toleration of the insanity defense...Legitimate in some few cases, the insanity defense has been rendered farcical through its manipulation by so-called experts.
Robert K. Tanenbaum
#27. My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
Yvette Clarke
#28. It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning on it, a personality, a destiny-and his was, of course, a lie.
Anne Rice
#29. Design is a funny word. Some people think Design means how it looks. But, of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. - Steve Jobs
John Morgan
#30. We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
William Golding
#31. An opponent who feels his argument is ignored isn't likely to engage with you at all.
Steven D. Levitt
#32. All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#34. For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
Bertolt Brecht
#36. How are you so good at reading me when you can't read anyone else around you?" He sighed, and as he climbed out the window, he said, "I love it.
Brodi Ashton
#37. In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction.
Timothy Snyder
#38. The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.
Mark Nepo
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