29 quotes found
“A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.”
“I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!”
“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
“He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.”
“A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.”
“The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of ”
“She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her ...”
“Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.”
“Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.”
“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.”
“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?”
“A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of ...”
“The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. This pronouncement seems to state the obvious and yet it is false. Men grow old...”
“He's the meanest one. We call him..Byrd the Turd”
“Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..”
“Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.”
“Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.”
“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
“Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.”
“A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.”
