Folly Quote by William Shakespeare

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

— Nicolas Chamfort

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood…

— William Shakespeare

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise.”

— Oscar Wilde

The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

— Proverbs 15:14

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

— William Blake

The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length.

— Jane Brereton