"Folly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... held by the enemy in force. The flanking hills could hardly have been climbed by an army, even if they had not been occupied. No resource remained to the Romans but to encamp in the broader part of the narrow valley, and there wait in hopeless despair the outcome of their folly. ...
— Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... possessed with a strange fancy of unmaking the knights made by Essex; being flattered in this folly by Bacon, who assured her, certainly in contradiction to all the laws of chivalry, that her general had no right to confer that degree after a prohibition laid upon him by her majesty. She was resolved ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin
... and a tyrant is distrust Schism in the Church had become a public fact Secure the prizes of war without the troubles and dangers Seemed bent on self-destruction Senectus edam maorbus est She declined to be his procuress Small matter which human folly had dilated into a great one Smooth words, in the plentiful lack of any substantial So much in advance of his time as to favor religious equality Stand between hope and fear Stroke of a broken table ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... robber; but the elusive birdling simply moved to another place, not in the least awed by his comparatively clumsy assailant. Large flies, perhaps bees also, buzzed around the tempting bait, and doubtless many paid with their lives for their folly. ...
— Little Brothers of the Air • Olive Thorne Miller
... injustice of which Philip is incapable; a folly which I cannot impute either to him or ...
— Egmont - A Tragedy In Five Acts • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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