Fool Quotes - Page 40

• Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

  Anne Rice

  Vampire, Devil, Lestat

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.674, Ballantine Books

  107 Copy quote

  Show source

• Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Believe, Boys, Men

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.53, Open Road Media

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.

  Herman Wouk

  Mistake, Common Sense, Finding Yourself

  "Herman Wouk to publish first memoir aged 100" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2015.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

  Emile Zola

  Pain, Children, Men

  7 Copy quote

• I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Eye, Men, White

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.423, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.

  Marquis de Sade

  Mean, Thinking, Reflection

  107 Copy quote

• Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kind, Thousand

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.51, Dell

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Dean Koontz (2012). “One Door Away from Heaven: A superb thriller of redemption, fear and wonder”, p.466, Hachette UK

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer." “If you don’t believe in Easter,” Owen Meany said. “Don’t kid yourself—Don’t call yourself a Christian.

  John Irving

  Christian, Easter, Believe

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.294, Random House

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Believe, Together

  Nora Roberts (2006). “The Quinn Brothers: 2-in-1”, p.594, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

  Dashiell Hammett (1965). “Novels”, Alfred A. Knopf

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real... He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand.

  Harold Bell Wright

  Real, Eye, Men

  Harold Bell Wright (1907). “The Shepherd of the Hills”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.

  Paul Murray

  Crush, Expectations, Grace

  45 Copy quote

• Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knives, Skills, Apples

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23)”, p.122, Random House

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him. "Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her. "It takes a man with real heart" —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— "to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

  Clive Barker

  Real, Heart, Men

  4 Copy quote

• Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

  Scott Westerfeld

  War, Thinking, Trying

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2012). “Goliath”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cutting, Thinking, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 07, 2015

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

  Leonard Cohen

  Hallelujah

  Song: Hallelujah

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Common Sense, Able

  4 Copy quote

• Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

  William Shakespeare

  Bending, Lips, Compass

  Sonnet 116

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Life, Risk, Sometimes

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Thinking, Daddy, Outcomes

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.158, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You need a name.” I covered the receiver for a moment. “We need a team name.” “Hunters,” Raphael said. “Valiant Knights of the Fur,” Dali said. “Justice Group,” Jim said. “Since Justice League is taken.” “Fools.” Doolittle shook his head. “Fools,” I said into the receiver.

  Ilona Andrews

  Team, Taken, Knights

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.179, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

  Umberto Eco

  Four, Normal, Sometimes

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Mad, Giving

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

  5 Copy quote

  Show source