The Court Jester Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Richard Simmons

#7. 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

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

Frank Caliendo

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Richard Simmons

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

Janos Bolyai

#15. Read the lyrics to N. Young's Harvest Moon and you'll know.

N. Young

#16. You can't explain love" he said out loud. "That's how it gets ruined.

Simon Van Booy

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

Joseph Wood Krutch

#18. I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.

Robert Morgan

#19. In general, substance-induced mania will subside within four weeks.

Ken Dickson

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

Samuel Beckett

#23. I was completely into Isaac Mayfair. Everything just felt right, like it was meant to be. Whatever "it" was. ~Adria

J.A. Redmerski

#24. The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.

Robin Sharma

#25. 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

#26. Our mistakes rewire our brain and open up new gateways of perception.

Abhijit Naskar

#27. 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

#28. Each championship is unique and special.

Trish Stratus

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

Steven Wright

#30. my mother knew that no woman thought she was beautiful, or beautiful enough, or beautiful in the right way.

Ann Patchett

#31. Only the dead remember the truth.

Courtney M. Privett

#32. Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

Barack Obama

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

Kevin Hart

#34. They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?

Janet Fitch

#35. 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

#36. Show me that you're real, and not just my own madness

Alexandra Monir

#37. 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

#38. 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