Character Quote by Anonymous

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

— Tennessee Williams

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something…

— Robert E. Sherwood

A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the…

— Marquis de Sade

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

— Anonymous

“The fool doth think he is wise, yet it is the wise man that knows himself to be the fool As You Like It,…

— Stephen Fry

“The Fool is a great template for the lead character in a story, untarnished by what is to come, eager for adventure.”

— Rob Parnell

“And it is seldom easy to convince a person that he is playing the fool.”

— Donna Lynn Hess

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— William Shakespeare