Folly Quotes

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

Richard Adams

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

Charles Dickens

Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...

Stephen King

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Samuel Johnson

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

Benjamin Franklin