Shakespeare Folly Quotes

#1. And writers say, as the most forward bud
Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
Even so by love the young and tender wit
Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
Losing his verdure even in the prime,
And all the fair effects of future hopes.

William Shakespeare

#2. The why is plain as way to parish church:
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.

William Shakespeare

#3. Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

William Shakespeare

#4. The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

William Shakespeare

#5. He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

William Shakespeare

#6. For folly that he wisely shows is fit;
But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.

William Shakespeare

#7. If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd

William Shakespeare

#8. Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

William Shakespeare

#9. But I remember now
I am in this earthly world, where to do harm
Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly.

William Shakespeare

#10. I joined an Internet community of Victorian scholars, which meant that if I posted a question about 1875's lavender harvest, more than a thousand experts would ponder it.

Michel Faber

#11. Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

William Shakespeare

#12. Folly is
so human that it has common roots with poetry and tragedy; it is
revealed as much in the insane asylum as in the writings of a
Cervantes or a Shakespeare, or in the deep psychological insights
and cries of revolt of a Nietzsche.

Richard Howard

#13. The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

William Shakespeare

#14. Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.

William Shakespeare

#15. The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance

William Shakespeare

#16. Go home to Ravka, Nina. Be free, as you were meant to be. Be a warrior, as you always have been. Just save some mercy for my people. There has to be a Fjerda worth saving. Promise me

Leigh Bardugo

#17. How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

William Shakespeare

#18. Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Winston Churchill

#19. Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

William Shakespeare

#20. You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

Heath Ledger

#21. I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.

Edmond Rostand

#22. This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

William Shakespeare

#23. CAMILLO Swear his thought over By each particular star in heaven and By all their influences, you may as well Forbid the sea for to obey the moon As, or by oath remove, or counsel shake The fabric of his folly, whose foundation Is pil'd upon his faith, and will continue The standing of his body.

William Shakespeare

#24. 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?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#25. Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

Barnabe Barnes

#26. Fools are not mad folks.

William Shakespeare

#27. Hm-hm-hm, his laugh went. Like he'd swallowed the sun.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#28. She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

William Shakespeare

#29. I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God's objectives means I understand that this is not about me.

James MacDonald

#30. What was I thinking, anyway? It would never work out between the two of us. I mean, I'm a mediator. His dad's a vampire. His uncle's a killer. What if we got married? Think how our kids would turn out ...

Meg Cabot

#31. I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

Sloane Crosley

#32. A fool's bolt is soon shot.

William Shakespeare

#33. I understand that Call will be your counterweight?"
Aaron looked over at Call as though he was expecting Call to take back the offer.
"Yeah" Call said. "I mean, if he still wants."
That made Aaron give him a lopsided grin. "I want.

Cassandra Clare