Fool Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 2

Oh what fools we mortals are.

— William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

— William Shakespeare

“Thus do I ever make my fool my purse;”

— William Shakespeare

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

— William Shakespeare

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

— William Shakespeare

My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.

— William Shakespeare

Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers.

— William Shakespeare

You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.

— William Shakespeare

“Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.”

— William Shakespeare

“Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.”

— William Shakespeare

“Manhood is called foolery when it stands / Against a falling fabric.”

— William Shakespeare

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

— William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

— William Shakespeare

I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.

— William Shakespeare

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

— William Shakespeare

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

— William Shakespeare

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he…

— William Shakespeare

The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he…

— William Shakespeare

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by…

— William Shakespeare

Day, night, late, early, At home, abroad, alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her match'd;…

— William Shakespeare

IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and…

— William Shakespeare

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.

— William Shakespeare

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

— William Shakespeare

But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

— William Shakespeare

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool..

— William Shakespeare

The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.

— William Shakespeare

The fool don't think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

— William Shakespeare

I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)

— William Shakespeare

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

— William Shakespeare

Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban

— William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a foo

— William Shakespeare

“I am even The natural fool of fortune.”

— William Shakespeare

You are a tedious fool.

— William Shakespeare

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

— William Shakespeare

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

— William Shakespeare

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

— William Shakespeare

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

— William Shakespeare

“Who’s there? Fool. Marry, here’s grace and a cod-piece; that’s a wise man and a fool.”

— William Shakespeare

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.

— William Shakespeare

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

— William Shakespeare