Sentence examples for my folly from inspiring English sources

Then I would revisit a column and recant my folly.

"This is my mausoleum, my folly on the hill.

I continued with my folly too long, and caused bleeding in a blind spot.

Of course by the time I was in high school, I understood my folly.

Now we have another beautiful singer, who happens to be his wife, Carla Bruni-strummingstheseing these lines to him on her new album: "I gave you my body, my soul and my chrysanthemum/ For I am yours/ you are my lord, you are my darling/ you are my orgy/ you are my folly".

She was the great philosopher of love and la vie sexuelle, and, paradoxically, nowhere more so than in the slim novel in which she bids fond farewell to fleshly pleasures and romantic adventures – "I have paid for my folly, shut away the heady young wine that intoxicated me, and folded up my big, floating heart" – in favour of an equally voluptuous pantheism.

"My follies seem to appeal to women more than men, who still prefer their garden sheds.

But, galled and stung by a sense of my follies and demerit, I strove to throw the blame on others.

The authorities are peculiarly proud of Number Twenty-Seven and Number Twenty-Eight – who turn out to be, respectively, Uriah Heep ("I see my follies now, sir") and Steerforth's sinister valet Littimer ("I am conscious of my own past follies").

"Women, kif [cannabis], alcohol, two packs of cigarettes a day – I committed all my follies before I was 40! Then I came here and changed".

"Some of my problems are from my own folly," he says.