Fool Quote by Howard Barker Download Open image “You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool” — Howard Barker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anybody Fool Fool Lies Lies Musical Lying Musical Musical Anybody Tragedy Truth
The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw… — Charles Ludlam Copy Share Image
Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
You can't fool music, first of all. Music will expose you as to the depth of who you really are or who you really… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A fool sings what he will, the master told his anxious princess, "You must not take his word to heart. On the morrow he… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I wish I were not sensual... I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity;… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
“It's time we started taking our audiences more seriously, and stop telling them stories they can understand.” — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it — WC Fields Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
