Quotes About Fool

Kill me?' The Bloody-Nine laughed louder than ever. 'I do the killing, fool!

Surely,' said she, 'there is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or a knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

Thera started sputtering. "You fool. You idiot." She stopped because Blaethe's response was much pithier and far more creative. She nodded approvingly. "What he said.

I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.

When it comes to being selected for a thankless job, the man who leaves the room just before the vote is the fool who gets the job.

In the first place, I don't believe you,' answered I;: 'in the second, if you will be such a fool, I can't hinder it.

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

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If I am a fool, he said, Then let me be a great fool and not a small one.

And this would be fine if he lived in any other town, but in Dublin every fool had a novel on the go, so he was, as Hughie Snell liked to endlessly repeat, 'a eunuch in the great harem of Irish literature'.

Probably I am a fool…most poets are fools…but for some reason I love faith, but have none.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all

That mortal is a fool who destroys a city, its temples, its tombs, and the precincts of the dead, making them a waste. He will be destroyed himself.

but whoever exercises the art of divination, is a fool; if indeed he chance to show disagreeable things, he is rendered hateful to those to whom he may prophesy; but speaking falsely to his employers from motives of pity, he is unjust as touching the Gods.—Phœbus alone should speak in oracles to men, who fears nobody.

A fool will think you are an idiot if you talk sense to him.

I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.

I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'all right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool – that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Oh, he was a pretentious fool, making careers out of cocktails and meanwhile regretting, weakly and secretly, the collapse of an insufficient and wretched idealism. He had garnished his soul in the subtlest taste and now he longed for the old rubbish. He was empty, it seemed, empty as an old bottle —

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.