207 Quotes About Folly

Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?

The folly of humankind is that it believes it is impervious to decay

Folly and evil are twins;the devil is their father,and wisdom is their enemy.

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend less on makeup and other nonessentials, to make her worship every biological moment she was offered instead of some badly punctured deity. I also wanted to kiss her for some reason, feel the life pulsing in those big Catholic lips, remind myself of the primacy of the living animal, of my time amongst the Romans.

ROS (mournfully): Not even England. I don't believe in it anyway.GUIL: What?ROS: England.GUIL: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

...for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.