Fool Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

  Ally Carter

  Liars, Sound, Wells

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

  Sarah Dessen

  I Like You, Giving Up, Love You

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.149, Penguin

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• Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Love Is, Suffering, Riches

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (1970). “A Princess of Mars”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

  Brent Weeks

  Armor, Body, Saws

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• I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

  William Faulkner

  Advice, Inability, Knows

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

  Michael Flynn

  Lying, Views, Want

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• To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering ... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Stupid, Responsibility, Men

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.317, Open Road Media

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• That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.

  Ally Carter

  Liars, Sound, Sometimes

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I suppose if you were inclined to misbehave, you wouldn't exactly tell me the truth anyway." "Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a gun on me, a sister who can shoot anything that moves, two other brothers who've repeatedly threatened to thrash me, and a grandmother who buys off constables. Do you really think I'm fool enough to antagonize them by committing adultery?" It was hard not to smile at that. "An excellent point." "I think so.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Brother, Moving, Grandmother

  Sabrina Jeffries (2011). “How to Woo a Reluctant Lady”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?' I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, 'because the Gallagher Academy doesn't admit fools

  Ally Carter

  Eye, Fighting, Looks

  Ally Carter (2011). “Gallagher Girls: Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?

  David Mitchell

  Regret, Giving, Doe

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• Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

  H. Rider Haggard

  Wise, Running, Stupid

  H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.146, Modern Library

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• I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.

  George R. R. Martin

  Beautiful, Sweet, Love You

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.356, Bantam

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• The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

  Epicurus

  Life, Gratitude, Lying

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