Follies

Examples

• Nay, say rather the feather-pated giddy madmen, said Waldemar, who must be toying with follies when such business was in hand. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I have committed follies, gentlemen,' said Uriah, looking round with a meek smile, 'and I ought to bear the consequences without repining. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commiseration with the follies of Prior Aymer. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Young women have committed similar follies often before, and have repented them in poverty and obscurity often before. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• No: If I must be a fool, as all those who reason or believe any thing certainly are, my follies shall at least be natural and agreeable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I am conscious of my own past follies. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• With all his faults and follies, a sweet and pleasant gentleman! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, _do_ divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• One half of those vain follies were puffed into mine ear by that perfidious Abbot Wolfram, and you may now judge if he is a counsellor to be trusted. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She could make a butt of Fred when he was present, but she did not enjoy his follies when he was absent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• When I think of my past follies, and my present state, I am sure it would be best for you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Plato in a hyperbolical and serio-comic vein exaggerates the follies of democracy which he also sees reflected in social life. Plato. The Republic.
• We will not trouble ourselves here with the names and follies, the crimes and intrigues, of its tale of emperors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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