Quotes About Not Suffering Fools

#1. If we are to succeed, we must maintain our anonymity, mask our identities. Even if it means suffering the mockery of others. Being taken for fools, fops, nitwits, even cowards.

Emmuska Orczy

#2. Her dreamy countenance infuriated me more than her words. I had seen that expression directed at me once upon a time.

David Z. Hirsch

#3. I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.

Florence King

#4. If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

Florence King

#5. I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

Jeb Bush

#6. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

Willem Dafoe

#7. I think you have a deeply anxious leadership in China that knows its legitimacy is drifting away, that's sending its [personal] money and its children abroad because they have no faith in the future of their own regime.

Larry Diamond

#8. If America runs on Dunkin', do I detect a slight limp?

Josh Stern

#9. Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.

Charlize Theron

#10. Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

Simon Campbell

#11. I look forward to a future of boredom and suffering, since I'm too cowardly to put an end to my days. I'll just go on: clubbing, snorting, drinking and persecuting the fools of the world.

Lolita Pille

#12. The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Maria Von Weber

#13. Pain is suffering because we want to be free of it, and pleasure is suffering because we fear to lose it. Fools search for freedom, but there is no freedom. There is only the embrace.

Brian Staveley

#14. I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

Phyllis Diller

#15. Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds.

Winston S. Churchill

#16. 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

#17. Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

Peter J. Carroll

#18. I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them.

Harry Secombe

#19. He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Solomon

#20. Plato's point is that we can never have true knowledge of anything that is in a constant state of change. We can only have opinions about things that belong to the world of the senses, tangible things. We can only have true knowledge if things that can be understood with our reason.

Jostein Gaarder

#21. To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Alexander Pope

#22. I love Tinkerbell because she's feisty and about it. She's got swag! She's going to do what she wants to do. I even have a Tinkerbell tattoo, and she is wearing Adidas flip-flops!

Kidada Jones

#23. If you're trying to serve someone in need and it doesn't hurt a little, you're doing something wrong.

Jeff Goins

#24. As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

George Bernard Shaw

#25. Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

Lester B. Pearson

#26. Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

Edsger Dijkstra