Dorothy Parker Quotes

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can have a Ph.D., and you can still be a total idiot.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

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!

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

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

A mask tells us more than a face.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.

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

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

It is well to be born either a king or a fool.

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.