William Shakespeare Stupidity Quotations

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.

But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.