Quotes About Clownishness

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

I laugh at everything, even at that which I love the most. There is no fact, thing, feeling or person over which I have not blithely run my clownishness, like an iron roller imparting sheen to cloth.

Nationality, then, is only a less narrow form of provincialism, a sublimer sort of clownishness and ill-manners.