William Shakespeare Fool Quotations

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.

Wishers were ever fools.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.

Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!

But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

Oh what fools we mortals are.

Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers.

How every fool can play upon the word!

Fools are not mad folks.

I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

You are a tedious fool.

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

What a fool honesty is.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad

Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban

Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.

I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)

So true a fool is love that in your will,Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.

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

And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.