There was a menagerie in which hideous clowns, dressed in…

There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)

— D. J. MacHale

“Clowns are respectable only in a circus.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.

— Stephen Lang

“Same circus, different clowns, and without a doubt I'm one of them.”

— Lynda Barry

I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in…

— Patch Adams

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

— Jimmy Fallon

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

— Edward R. Murrow

A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room.

— Ellen DeGeneres

“If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of…

— Steven E. Landsburg

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

— Dan Harmon

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I don't have a negative perception of clowns.

— Andy Muschietti

I had a dream that a clown named dimples keep leaving the radio on in my room

— Anonymous

When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

— Darynda Jones

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not…

— John Baldessari