Court Jester Quotes

#1. A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.

Sharon Stone

#2. He was the class clown, the court jester, because he'd learn early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren't scared, you usually didn't get beat up. Even the baddest gangster kids would tolerate you, keep you around for laughs. Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain

Rick Riordan

#3. I'm the out-of-court jester who won't settle, I up the vigilante, I'm a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?

Bob Black

#4. I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.

Garth Nix

#5. I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

Emma Stone

#6. The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#7. In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester.

Richard Simmons

#8. It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#9. It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

RuPaul

#10. I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

Richard Simmons

#11. God, O God, where art thou? Thou art as distant to me as the lady combing rice in the Yunnan Province of China or a piece of floating space debris circling Pegasi. In this feeling-dead world of post traumatic stress, skepticism is king, queen, and court jester.

Chila Woychik

#12. My father was a small claims court jester.

Steven Wright

#13. The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.

William Faulkner

#14. This traffic-court jester did more than tell jokes; he plucked out your subconscious and beat you silly with it, not until you were unrecognizable, but until you were recognizable.

Paul Beatty

#15. I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

Richard Simmons

#16. The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

Umberto Eco

#17. People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.

Richard Simmons

#18. An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.

Kevin Hart

#19. Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter,

Joe Randazzo

#20. When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.

Richard Simmons

#21. ESPN takes itself very seriously, but for some reason, I'm allowed to be the court jester.

Frank Caliendo

#22. Unless we do something and do it quickly, we may be going back to an economic stone age.

Kenneth Eade

#23. Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

Rudolph Rummel

#24. I clearly saw us from outside, like in a picture: we are not people, we are a road sign warning: "Stop and thank luck because such fate didn't befall you as befell us, and only then keep going your way".

Igor Eliseev

#25. The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

Danny Kaye

#26. The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

Idina Menzel

#27. The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

Anne Rice

#28. JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances ... the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.

Ambrose Bierce