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William Shakespeare Quotes about Stupidity

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Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

William Shakespeare
Stupidity, You Like It, Folly
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

William Shakespeare
Ignorance, Stupidity, Common
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1570

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

William Shakespeare
Stupidity, May, Folly
William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

William Shakespeare
Giving, Stupidity, Age
1606 Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, act1, sc.3, l.57.

To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Night, Stupidity
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight]. [8 vols. The vol. containing the biogr. is of the 3rd ed.].”, p.19

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

William Shakespeare
Running, Stupidity, Strange
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.393

And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes.

William Shakespeare
Blow, Stupidity, Bud
William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.4

But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.

William Shakespeare
Stupidity, World, Remember
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.310

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