Buffoons Quotes:

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

- Lord Chesterfield

source: Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.141, Oxford University Press

topic: Wit, Related, Buffoons

You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.

- Bernie Mac

topic: Buffoons

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

- Tony Snow

topic: Perfect, People, Political, Buffoons, Political Campaign

Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

- Luigi Pirandello

topic: Play, Tunes, Buffoons

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Laughing, Soul, Fancy, Jester, Court Jester

I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

- Cary Elwes

topic: Use, Princes Bride, Princess Bride, Buffoons, Small Words

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.2, Harvard University Press

topic: Life, Men, Faces, Boasters, Buffoons

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons on the Hill! Wallowing in blabber and spew, regiments of ex-lawyers and used-car salesmen attempt to distract us from the naughty little surprises served up by deregulated corporate America.

- Frank Zappa

source: Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

topic: Naughty, America, Car, Used Car, Car Salesman

You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

topic: War, Men, World, Buffoons

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Laughter, Men, Shining, Loud Laughter, Vivacity

Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour!

- W. S. Gilbert

topic: Funny, Morning, Night, Light Hearted, Good Humour

Now I think liberals have gone from underreacting to Trump and saying that Trump is just a clown and a buffoon, and that Hillary Clinton's going to kick his ass, to now overreacting, and saying, "Oh my God, 60 million people consciously endorsed a white supremacist for president."

- Van Jones

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Thinking, White, People, Buffoons

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

- Iain Glen

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Class, Looks, Tongue, Tongue Tied, Refinement

I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute.

- Nick Frost

source: Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2009.

topic: Thinking, People, Kind, Buffoons

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

- Robert E. Howard

topic: Art, Appreciate, Tin, Buffoons

There have been candidates who've been right on trade but wrong on the other two, right on war but wrong on the other two, right on immigration but not interested in the other two. It is this writer's belief that [Donald] Trump is the first one to come along, despite what a big buffoon everybody says he is. He is the only guy that's put his finger on the problems and the comprises and the areas that need to be addressed in order to owe direct the route which our country is traveling.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Country, War, Order, Buffoons

I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.

- Daniel Negreanu

source: Source: pokerworks.com

topic: Cancer, Thinking, Our Society, Buffoons

Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.

- Jimmy Carter

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Names, Trying, Faces, Buffoons

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

topic: Artist, Civilization, Clown, Buffoons

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

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Age, Idiot, Forty, Buffoons

Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was in accordance with true medical principles.

- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

topic: Laughter, Health, Exercise, Jester, Buffoons

Even if Donald Trump wins, the establishment's not gonna go down a hole. The establishment's not gonna slink away in defeat. The establishment is gonna look at this as one inexperienced buffoon who happened to get elected versus all of them who know the ropes inside and out of Washington, and they're gonna make it their objective to deny this guy anything and everything that represents anything he campaigned on.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Winning, Guy, Rope, Buffoons

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

- Willard Scott

topic: Reputation, Buffoons

Everybody was telling [the Democrats], the media, everybody telling them they're gonna win in a landslide, [Donald] Trump's a buffoon, look at his campaign staff, a bunch of nobody's and know-nothings. Looks at his supporters, a bunch of white supremacist goombahs. They're in utter denial.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Winning, Media, White, Landslides, Buffoons

Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached intellectual heights that Roth will never attain. Roth is a petty bigot and his ignorant remarks about black culture expose him as a buffoon to scholars the world over.

- Ishmael Reed

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Character, Men, Black History, Bigots, Black Culture

I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were the real deal. No one can take that away. You can call us buffoons, or clowns or whatever. But when we wanted to, we were as good as anybody.

- Paul Westerberg

source: Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

topic: Real, Heart, Replacements, Buffoons

Those who flashin' don't blast, they still buffoons, Just blowin out hot air, they should fill balloons. I'm like them shorties that could kill for goons, They started hustlin' in April to cop wheels in June.

- Elzhi

topic: Rap, June, Air, Goons, Buffoons

Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women – women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in – older women and younger men.

- Louise Bourgeois

topic: Art, Hurt, Men, Older Women, Be Young

When I did comedy I made fun of myself.If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me and said, 'Gee, that's like Uncle David', or 'That's like a friend of mine'. And they related through that. I didn't make fun of them. I made fun of me.

- Sid Caesar

source: "The words and comedy of Sid Caesar" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2014.

topic: Uncles, Fun, People, Buffoons

Olympus has been a much welcomed return to my Shakespearean roots. King Aegeus demanded a much greater range and depth that I've yet had the opportunity to tap on camera. Lab Rats was a wonderful opportunity for me to just go be a goofy buffoon, which I love. It was exhilarating to listen to all the funny lines the writers would come up with on the spot and then get to play them immediately.

- Graham Shiels

source: "Olympus Actor Graham Shiels: Handling negative thoughts and the influence of The Secret". Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Kings, Opportunity, Play, Buffoons

I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Professor Challenger II”, p.215, Lulu.com

topic: Humorous, Sarcasm, Italian, Derision, Buffoons

For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Buffoons

It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul.

- Hilaire Belloc

topic: Engineering, Iron, Paris, Buffoons

I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.

- Tom Hanks

source: Interview with Сhristina Radish, collider.com. December 9, 2013.

topic: Fun, Play, Scotland, Scotland Yard, Buffoons

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

- Graydon Carter

topic: School, Men, Thinking, Berlusconi, Buffoons

Islam is the religion of peace. We say that jokingly. That's actually the position of the US government. It's rooted in political correctness and fear and a number of other convoluted things.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Government, Numbers, Political, Convoluted, Babbling

There is one school of thought that says Mayors should cut ribbons, be funny and be a buffoon. The other school of thought is that we can do more. Scotland is getting more powers. Wales is getting more powers. Greater Manchester. London needs more powers.

- Sadiq Khan

topic: School, Cutting, Scotland, Buffoons

That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes.

- Alan Tudyk

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Shoes, Pockets, Rolling, Pocket Watches, Hairdos

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.

- Noel Gallagher

topic: Genius, Equal, Buffoons

Betcha I wet cha like hurricanes and typhoons, got buffoons eating my ***** while I watch cartoons.

- Lil' Kim

topic: Art, Media, Pussy, Typhoons, Buffoons

In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?

- Alan Lightman

source: Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.29, Vintage

topic: Science, Cosmos, World, Betting, Buffoons

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.

- N.D. Wilson

topic: Giving, Creative, Lapses, Breaking Rules, Buffoons

We are the buffoons of our children.

- Pietro Aretino

topic: Children, Parent, Our Children, Buffoons

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

- Sarah Bernhardt

topic: Artist, Acting, Actors, Deformity, Buffoons

"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.

- James Gleick

topic: Science, Richard Feynman, Energy, Buffoons, Freeman

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

- Oswald Mosley

source: After his Labour Party meeting in Cambridge was broken-up by pro-Fascist undergraduates, 1927.

topic: Ice Cream, Black, Spirit, Buffoons

If Christians could be trained to provide solid evidence for what they believe and good answers to unbelievers’ questions and objections, then the perception of Christians would slowly change. Christians would be seen as thoughtful people to be taken seriously rather than as emotional fanatics or buffoons. The gospel would be a real alternative for people to embrace.

- William Lane Craig

source: William Lane Craig (2010). “On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision”, p.18, David C Cook

topic: Christian, Real, Believe, Buffoons

At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good. And, you know, Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch. And, over time, you came to realize that Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. And, slowly, I think, even as a show, we started shifting in tone as the election started shifting.

- Trevor Noah

topic: Thinking, People, Track, Buffoons