Roald Dahl Quotes

… one of the silliest devils I ever knew

I love hearing about bad behavior. It's just so funny to me. Especially, grown ups acting like weird, inconsolable babies over really stupid things, to me, is really funny.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

You need to act your age and not your girl's age

It needs brains to be a real fool.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

Stupid to the power of stupid.

Ground the main character in stupidity. Hire a good cast and a good crew.

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

If I'm committed to something really stupid, then I'm in a comedy.

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.