Fools
Notes on Fools
Status of Women
Read the NoteCelia and Rosalind engage in an intellectual discourse on questions that might today be expressed as: “Is it better to be born talented or lucky?”, “Is it our genetic code or our environment that most shapes us?”, “Are women by nature or by misfortune disadvantaged in their status compared with men?” When Celia and Rosalind use the word natural, as in “Nature’s natural”
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Quotes including the Theme Fools
And that she should love this fellow
Read the QuoteCloten
And that she should love this fellow and
refuse me!
Second Lord, aside
If it be a sin to make a true election,
she is damned.
She shines not upon fools, lest
the reflection should hurt her.
First Lord
Sir, as I told you always,
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Let us sit and mock the good huswife Fortune
Read the QuoteCelia
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune
from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be
bestowed equally.Personification
Rosalind
I would we could do so, for her benefits are
mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman
doth most mistake in her gifts to women.
Celia
‘Tis true,
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How now, wit, whither wander you?
Read the QuoteCelia
How now, wit, whither wander you?
Touchstone
Mistress, you must come away to your father.
The more pity that fools may not speak
wisely what wise men do foolishly
Celia
Were you made the messenger?
Touchstone
No, by mine honor, but I was bid to come
for you.
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Prithee tell him, so much the rent of his land comes to
Read the QuoteFool, to Kent
Prithee tell him, so much the rent of his
land comes to. He will not believe a Fool.
King Lear
A bitter Fool!
Fool
Dost know the difference, my boy, between a
bitter fool and a sweet one?
King Lear
No, lad,
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Nuncle, give me an egg
Read the QuoteFool
Nuncle, give me
an egg, and I’ll give thee two crowns.
King Lear
What two crowns shall they be?
Fool
Why, after I have cut the egg i’ th’ middle and eat
up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou
clovest thy crown i’ th’ middle and gav’st away
both parts,
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God bless thee, lady!
Read the QuoteFeste
—God bless thee, lady!
Olivia
Take the Fool away.
Feste
Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the Lady.
Olivia
Go to, you’re a dry Fool. I’ll no more of you.
Besides, you grow dishonest.
Feste
Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel
will amend.
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Either thou art most ignorant by age
Read the QuoteEither thou art most ignorant by age,
Or thou wert born a fool.
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A fool, a fool! I met a fool i’ th’ forest
Read the QuoteJaques
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 bask’d him in the sun,
And rail’d on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.
“Good morrow,
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Frateretto calls me and tells me Nero is an angler
Read the QuoteEdgar
Frateretto calls me and tells me Nero is an
angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and
beware the foul fiend.
Fool
Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a
gentleman or a yeoman.
Lear
A king, a king!
Fool
No, he’s a yeoman that has a gentleman to his
son,
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I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted with thee
Read the QuoteJaques
I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better
acquainted with thee.
Rosalind, as Ganymede
They say you are a melancholy fellow.
Jaques
I am so. I do love it better than laughing.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry
than experience to make me sad
Rosalind,
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