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Fool: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Why, thou silly gentleman!— 0. i. 3.

Let the doors be shut upon him; that he may play the fool nowhere but in his own house.— H. iii. 1.

Fools on both sides!— T. C. i. 1

Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled thee !— T.N. V. 1

I dare not call them fools; but this I think, When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.— L. L. v. 2

This fellow's wise enough to play the fool; And, to do that well, craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time; And, like the haggard, check at every feather Ahat comes before his eye. This is a practice, As full of labour as a wise man's art: For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit. T. N. iii 1. A fool, a fool!— I met a fool i' the forest,

A motley fool;-a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool; Who laid him down, and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms,— A. Y. i. 7

In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.— Cym. ii. 3

I am sprighted with a fool.

Foolery

Foolery, Sir, does walk about the orb, like the sun; it— T. N. iii. 1.

shines every where.— T. N. ii. 5.

Observe him for the love of mockery.— T. C. iii. 2.

What folly I commit, I dedicate to you.

Fooling

T.C.v.2. I do not like this fooling.— H. iii. 2.

They fool me to the top of my bent. Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling. T. N. ii.