Sentence examples for witty fool from inspiring English sources
The zanni had already been differentiated as comic rustic and witty fool.
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit".
At that moment the only quote about fools that came to mind was from Shakespeare "Better a foolish wit than a witty fool, -which I'd always thought could've worked either way, but did little to help me sort out my predicament.
In addition to Touchstone, Armin originated many witty fools, including Feste in Twelfth Night and the Fool in King Lear.
And who is the Dresser but Lear's Fool: witty, melancholy – and with a life that is going to be written out.
We've so often been fooled by witty cocktail talkers who simply didn't transfer to television".
"She is shy and witty, she is nobody's fool, she is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography," he wrote.
Baker, like all radio greats, has the knack of creating a unique world from the studio: in his case, fiercely intelligent, warm, quirky, happy to relish tangents, witty, unpredictable, and not suffering fools – or hypocrisy, hokum or superficiality – gladly.
Here she gives us everything we want: the wittiest lines, the silliest fools, the most lovable heroine, the handsomest estate.
In Wall's own words, he liked people who were "witty, world-wise, opinionated, argumentative, iconoclastic, intolerant to fools, and original to the level of eccentricity", and indeed he was a master of these attributes.
