Follies Quotes

The shortest follies are the best.

— Pierre Charron

What is life but a series of inspired follies...

— George Bernard Shaw

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

— Homer

My dreams are all follies.

— Taylor Caldwell

“Beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder!”

— Ashok Kallarakkal

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

— Susanna Centlivre

“in the fears and follies of man, but on his reason.…”

— Jon Meacham

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

— Josh Billings

“Foibles are like alphabets; they collate and cascade into a prose of follies.”

— Shabbeer Ahmed

The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

— Pierre Charron

“And aren't the most beautiful follies the ones linked to love?”

— Irène Némirovsky

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

— Anonymous

The first thing I did was 'Ziegfeld Follies,' a small bit en pointe with Fred Astaire.

— Cyd Charisse

“what with the follies and an indecent proposal it's been quite a night”

— Barbra Streisand

“The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.”

— Anonymous

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in…

— Jerome K. Jerome

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it…

— George Bernard Shaw

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the…

— Rory Bremner

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant…

— Joseph Addison

I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.

— Charles Busch

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to…

— Horace

We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you…

— John Redwood

“The literature hardly helps. You remember it only when you are well, healthy, and in a positive state of mind. And you…

— Girdhar Joshi

“Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate? And what in the world has caused more…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I was thrilled to be rehired for the 1919 'Follies.' Mr. Ziegfeld himself hired me. To me, that particular 'Follies' was his…

— Doris Eaton Travis

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

— Samuel Johnson

Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.

— Norm MacDonald

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

— Moliere

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

— Walter Raleigh

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to makethe world a better place.

— Molière

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I love, I love beauty and in it I worship my follies, the ones I found on my own, and the ones…

— Adonis

“The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

— Charles Busch

I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production…

— Charles Busch