Buffoons Quotes

• Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

  Cary Elwes

  Use, Princess Bride, Princes Bride

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• Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

  Tony Snow

  People, Perfect, Political

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• 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

  Laughing, Soul, Fancy

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• Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

  Luigi Pirandello

  Play, Tunes

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.53, Luigi Pirandello

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• I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons on the Hill! Wallowing in blabber and spew, regiments of ex-lawyers and used-car salesmen attempt to distract us from the naughty little surprises served up by deregulated corporate America.

  Frank Zappa

  Naughty, America, Car

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Men, World

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Laughter, Men, Shining

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• Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,
  If you listen to popular rumour;
  From morning to night he's so joyous and bright,
  And he bubbles with wit and good humour!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Funny, Morning, Night

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Family Fool”

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• With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

  Iain Glen

  Class, Tongue, Faces

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute.

  Nick Frost

  Thinking, People, Kind

  Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2009.

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• A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wit, Related

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.141, Oxford University Press

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• We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

  Robert E. Howard

  Art, Appreciate, Hollywood

  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, February 20, 1928.

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• There have been candidates who've been right on trade but wrong on the other two, right on war but wrong on the other two, right on immigration but not interested in the other two. It is this writer's belief that [Donald] Trump is the first one to come along, despite what a big buffoon everybody says he is. He is the only guy that's put his finger on the problems and the comprises and the areas that need to be addressed in order to owe direct the route which our country is traveling.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, War, Order

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Now I think liberals have gone from underreacting to Trump and saying that Trump is just a clown and a buffoon, and that Hillary Clinton's going to kick his ass, to now overreacting, and saying, "Oh my God, 60 million people consciously endorsed a white supremacist for president."

  Van Jones

  Thinking, White, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Cancer, Thinking, Our Society

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.

  Jimmy Carter

  Names, Trying, Faces

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Artist, Civilization, Clown

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1980). “The End of Christendom”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

  Madonna Ciccone

  Age, Idiot, Forty

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• Even if Donald Trump wins, the establishment's not gonna go down a hole. The establishment's not gonna slink away in defeat. The establishment is gonna look at this as one inexperienced buffoon who happened to get elected versus all of them who know the ropes inside and out of Washington, and they're gonna make it their objective to deny this guy anything and everything that represents anything he campaigned on.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Guy, Rope

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

  Willard Scott

  Reputation

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• Everybody was telling [the Democrats], the media, everybody telling them they're gonna win in a landslide, [Donald] Trump's a buffoon, look at his campaign staff, a bunch of nobody's and know-nothings. Looks at his supporters, a bunch of white supremacist goombahs. They're in utter denial.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Media, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• That is Obama's signature move: Invent people who are saying ridiculous things and then encourage the audience to laugh at these made-up buffoons.

  Ann Coulter

  Moving, People, Laughing

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• Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch.

  Trevor Noah

  Watches, Trump, Entertaining

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 201.

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• At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good. And, you know, Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch. And, over time, you came to realize that Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. And, slowly, I think, even as a show, we started shifting in tone as the election started shifting.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, People, Track

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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