FOOLISHNESS in Classic Quotes

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1  It was foolish of me, and yet I couldn't help it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
2  You are foolish, Jim, utterly foolish; a bad-tempered boy, that is all.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
3  But he must be very good, and not lose his temper, or spend his money foolishly.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
4  The hair would lose its brightness, the mouth would gape or droop, would be foolish or gross, as the mouths of old men are.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
5  "You have done too many foolish things during the last fortnight to be entitled to give yourself that name, Dorian," answered Lord Henry with his sweet melancholy smile.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
6  The son, who had been his father's secretary, had resigned along with his chief, somewhat foolishly as was thought at the time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
7  Well, after a few days the thing left my studio, and as soon as I had got rid of the intolerable fascination of its presence, it seemed to me that I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good-looking and that I could paint.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9