Vaudeville Quotes

“It doesn't matter how cheap and tinny the show is...Soon as the house lights go down and the band starts up, I could cry.”
― Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses

“You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else...

... is vaudeville.”
― Alan Moore

“How to explain Time and Separateness back to God, Who had never thought of them, Who could let the whole world come to grief in a scattering moment?”
― Eudora Welty

“They felt obliged to go on living as if Britain had not died, with troupes of hypnotists encouraging viewers in their suspension of disbelief. Institutions must reproduce themselves - including, perhaps most crucially those of nation and state…They abandoned it some time ago, and what we are left with is not so much Britain as ‘Britain’ - the inverted comma ex-Realm of of Her Majesty… Britain has remoreselessly crumbled into vaudeville ‘Britain’, a realm of general impersonation and self-delusion.”
― Tom Nairn, Pariah: Misfortunes of The British Kingdom