Quotes About Folly

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

This is folly, Tyrion,' declared Lord Tywin. 'Speak to the matter at hand. You are not on trial for being a dwarf. 'That is where you err, my lord. I have been on trial for being a dwarf my entire life.

Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.

No man is free. Only children and fools think elsewise.

Songs are sung of Prince Joffrey's last flight as well. Some singers can find glory even in a privy, Mushroom tells us, but it takes a fool to speak the truth. Though we cannot doubt the prince's courage, his act was one of folly.

The council must issue an edict. Any man heard speaking of incest or calling Joff a bastard should lose his tongue for it." "A prudent measure," said Grand Maester Pycelle, his chain of office clinking as he nodded. "A folly," sighed Tyrion. "When you tear out a man's tongue you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

Love's not always wise, I've learned. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts wherever they take us. - Robb Stark

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Alive, ridiculous, and dead forgot?

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

Vice is as much a part of human nature as folly, and pornography may be as necessary to vent vice as satire is to vent folly.

Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.

Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so.

All the world's a mass of folly, Youth is gay, age melancholy: Youth is spending, age is thrifty, Mad at twenty, cold at fifty; Man is nought but folly's slave, From the cradle to the grave.

Don't ask. We're all but done for in any case, taking that Fiona couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo, and Paddy and Maureen both cheat like tinkers at a fair. What are you talking about? Why would anybody hit a cow with a banjo? He only smiled. The point is, Fiona couldn't so we'll be done soon enough.

I was going to rise, do some typing and coffee drinking in the kitchen all day since at that time work, work was my dominant thought, not love- not the pain which impels me to write this even while I don't want to, the pain which won't be eased by writing of this but heightened, but which will be redeemed, and if only it were a dignified pain and could be placed somewhere other than this black gutter of shame and loss and noisemaking folly in the night... /The Subterraneans

It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly;

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.