Follies Quotes
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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
Oscar Wilde -
My dreams are all follies.
Taylor Caldwell
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Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.
William Shakespeare -
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
Jane Austen -
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Moliere -
I have talked quite long enough about my own follies. The thing is to finish the thing as devised and then let it be judged. But forgive me! It is written in my life-blood, such as that is, thick or thin; and I can no other.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.
Charles Busch -
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
Alfred de Musset -
Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
Jane Austen -
We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.
Marcel Proust -
I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for Stephen Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.
Charles Busch