Fool Quotes - Page 30

• A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Ears, Speech

  William Shakespeare (1832). “Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott”

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• This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

  Dorothy Parker

  Horse, Liars, Bird

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Book, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.122, Vintage

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• You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Dream, Business

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• Time is making fools of us again.

  J. K. Rowling

  Time

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• Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him -- Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse -- It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?

  Emily Bronte

  Dog, Horse, Heart

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.473, Penguin

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• I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.

  Terry Goodkind

  Looks, Failing

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.51, Head of Zeus

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• A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

  P. C. Cast

  Men, Romance, Enough

  P. C. Cast (2008). “Goddess of Light”, p.68, Penguin

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• The lions sing and the hills take flight.
  The moon by day, and the sun by night.
  Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
  Let the Lord of Chaos rule.

  Robert Jordan

  Children, Moon, Night

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Thinking, People

  Candida (1898) act 1

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• The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

  Maile Meloy

  Teeth, Grit, Way

  Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.197, Canongate Books

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• There are only three people in life you can never fool--pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm bullshit-proof.

  Scott Lynch

  Mother, Taken, People

  Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.25, Spectra

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• My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lucky, Woods, Found

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Running, Black, Ink

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• Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

  Alan Moore

  Life, Hero, Cheer Up

  "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982-1986.

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• We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late

  Dave Eggers

  Car, Asking, Done

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.57, Vintage

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• We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it.

  Michael Grant

  World, Poor, This World

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• She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Thinking, Cradle

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

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• Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Intelligent, Simplicity, Genius

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• Regret is just a waste of time for fools.

  Kazuya Minekura

  Regret, Waste, Wasting Time

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• You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

  Robert Harris

  Winning, Men, Election

  Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium”, Hutchinson Radius

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• I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Glimpse, Bruises, Staring

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• I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

  Lorrie Moore

  Pain, Suffering, Shows

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.86, Vintage

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• but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

  Darren Shan

  House

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• I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Selfish, Loose Women, Wanton

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