Quotes About Fool

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? Malvolio: Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art. Feste: But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found you. Orl: He is drowned in the brook, look but in and you shall see him. Jaq: There I shall see mine own figure. Orl: Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. . . . O, I am fortune's fool! . . . Then I defy you, stars.

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man.

Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban

Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.

do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love:

If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten for being old before thy time. LEAR. How's that? FOOL. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

I am even The natural fool of fortune.

Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!

Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.

Why should I play the Roman fool and die On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes Do better upon them.

La vida no es más que una sombra en marcha; un mal actor que se pavonea y se agita una hora en el escenario y después no vuelve a ser oído: es un cuento narrado por un idiota, lleno de ruido y de furia, que nada significa

And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.

Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood, Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!

The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. King Lear: Because they are not eight? Fool: Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.

Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool, Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.

I wear not motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.

I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal. I saw him put down the other day with an 80   ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take these wise men, that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better than the fools' zanies.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I am apt to do myself wrong.

How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.

Merely, thou art death's fool, For him thou labor'st by thy flight to shun, And yet run'st toward him still.