Fool Quotes - Page 28

• I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Religious, Men, Lessons

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.90, Penguin

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• The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Suffering, Doe, Ends

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

  John le Carre

  Enemy, Looks, Justification

  John le Carre (2002). “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Half, Madness

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.52, Bantam

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• My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.

  Henry Rollins

  Night, Hands, Silence

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• What have you done when you have bested a fool?

  Charles Portis

  Done

  Charles Portis (2010). “True Grit: A Novel”, p.84, The Overlook Press

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• The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Sorrow

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

  Rebecca West

  People, Common Sense, Giving

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Fountain Overflows”, p.275, Open Road Media

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• God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Doing You, May, God Knows

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1991). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

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• Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.

  Margaret Atwood

  Falling In Love, Criminals, Happens

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.72, Anchor

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• If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon

  Meg Cabot

  Kissing, Littles, Ifs

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• Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.

  Darynda Jones

  Believe, People, Looks

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty pinprick of a girl. I am a magician! Did you never think, even once, that I loved lipstick and rouge for more than their color alone? I am a student of their lore, and it is arcane and hermetic beyond the dreams of alchemists. Did you never wonder why I gave you so many pots, so many creams, so much perfume?

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Dream, Thinking

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.143, Macmillan

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• When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go.

  J. D. Salinger

  Worry, Want, Bathroom

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Wish, Desire

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.59, Penguin UK

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• What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

  Victor Hugo

  Honor, Gold, Dignity

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Olivia, Heat

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.32, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Character, Tricks

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• Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Past, Men, Thinking

  Nadeem Aslam (2011). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.64, Faber & Faber

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• All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz

  Robin Hobb

  Cutting, Men, Wind

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• In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that the Fool will fall. But we don't see it happen, and a Fool doesn't know that he's subject to the laws of gravity. Against all odds, he just might float.

  Richard Kadrey

  Fall, Men, Odds

  Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

  Philippa Gregory

  Husband, Thinking, Years

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.2782, Simon and Schuster

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• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Freedom, Fighting

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Bigger

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.60, Random House

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• All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

  Bob Dylan

  Falling In Love, Morning, Pain

  Song: Is Your Love In Vain ?

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