Court Jester Quotes
15 quotes by 12 authors
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There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the…
— James Burnham
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I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.
— Minimaks
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An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a new world. The…
— Henri Langlois
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Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the…
— Joe Randazzo
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Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the…
— Joe Randazzo
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I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court…
— Richard Simmons
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The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
— Saul Bellow
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Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts…
— Goldie
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The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the…
— Umberto Eco
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I consider myself a court jester - motivator.
— Richard Simmons
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If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter…
— Bruce Sterling
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He was the class clown, the court jester, because he'd learn early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren't scared, you usually didn't…
— Rick Riordan
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In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester.
— Richard Simmons
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When your Knight in Shining Armor wanders into your life, don't treat him like the Court Jester. Few things are more difficult to live with…
— Vladislas Nikilovic
Who Wrote These Court Jester Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 15 Court Jester Quotes as follows: