| 1. | "We must play the farce to the end. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 2. | "Impossible That would be too good a farce Who told you that, my friend. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | "What a farce this is" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | If thou therewith art fully satisfied, So let us by the farce abide. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| 6. | Every day the coast looked the same, as though we had not moved but we passed various places--trading places--with names like Gran' Bassam Little Popo, names that seemed to belong to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister backcloth. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 7. | The farced tide running fore the king. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | shining With eyne as crystal, farced with pleasanc. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 9. | Our law prescribes examinations, but forgets to provide for the competency of the examiners so that few better farces offer than the course of question and answer on these occasions. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |