Folly Quote by Amelia Barr

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

— Aldous Huxley

Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.

— Marcus Brigstocke

I'm interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things.

— Nish Kumar

A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to…

— Sir Fulke Greville

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and…

— Walter Savage Landor

“you cloak your offence by ignorance, saying that you did not know my determination in this matter. it is a double offence to do…

— Julia Fox

A small unkindness is a great offence.

— Hannah More

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

— Edmund Burke

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

— Jane Austen

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by…

— Samuel Johnson

“It is gracious to overlook and offence.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

— Benjamin Franklin