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I wasn't going to kill him, you buffoon. -- Sarah J. Maas
Buffoons may have serious faces behind their mask! -- Nelson Jack
Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons. -- Tony Snow
The late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery. -- Kurt Vonnegut
When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. -- Sid Caesar
Buchanan's constant crowing about his great victory only added to the perception that he was a clown; a blithering buffoon. -- C.L. Gammon
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was so fucked, careening madly down the path to getting his heart splattered all over hell. And grinning like a buffoon the entire time. -- Cherrie Lynn
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face. -- Iain Glen
When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon. -- Henry Miller
You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy. -- G.K. Chesterton
Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise. -- T.H. White
I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed. -- Orla Brady
They didn't come to crush the city. They came to crush the hubris of its king.""That must have hurt," Oates said. Umber pinched the bridge of his nose."Hubris means arrogance, you great buffoon. -- P.W. Catanese
Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him? -- Marquis de Sade
I am an inveterate buffoon, and been from birth up, your reverence, it's as though it were a craze in me. I dare say it's a devil within me. But only a little one. A more serious one would have chosen another lodging. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A couple of buffoons were running for some state-senate seat just vacated by the incumbent's prison term. One accused the other of being "against the Internet" - a knockout punch in a world where whole hordes of humans think better sex is a faster modem. -- Andrew Vachss
A silent concave of puppet buffoonsneither eagles nor jaguarsbuzzard lawyerslocuseswings of ink sawing mindiblesventriloquist coyotespeddlers of shadowsbeneficent satrapsthe cacomistle thief of hensthe monument to the Rattle and its snakethe altar to the mauser and the machetethe mausoleum of the epauletted caymanrhetoric sculpted in phrases of cement -- Octavio Paz
For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making fine messes as we go, but when you get close, the ridiculous quickly fades into the sordid or the tragic or the merely sad. [p. 73] -- Siri Hustvedt
Christianity is itself so jolly a thing that it fills the possessorof it with a certain silly exuberance, which sad and high-mindedRationalists might reasonably mistake for mere buffoonery andblasphemy; just as their prototypes, the sad and high-minded Stoics ofold Rome, did mistake the Christian joyousness for buffoonery andblasphemy. -- G.K. Chesterton
He'd use this opportunity to impress Rick and show him that he did, in fact, have more to offer than just being a sexy skanktart. To show that he wasn't just a brainless bimfoon, that's when a bimbo breeds with a buffoon, resulting in a true, hot mess. -- Kyle Adams
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon. -- Graydon Carter
Today's television sitcoms...the father is typically depicted as a clumsy buffoon, an inane and even unnecessary appendage. In creating that caricature, producers and directors have done irreparable damage to the God-ordained image of what may be one of the most significant roles and offices in eternity - that of a father, that of a real man. -- Robert L. Millet
I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon. -- Noel Gallagher
I've always had a reputation as a buffoon. -- Willard Scott
You're never going to see me playing a buffoon. -- Bernie Mac
Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch. -- Trevor Noah
I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty -- Madonna Ciccone
I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society. -- Daniel Negreanu
A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit. -- Lord Chesterfield
I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon. -- Cary Elwes
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. -- Lord Chesterfield
That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes. -- Alan Tudyk
I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun. -- Tom Hanks
I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute. -- Nick Frost
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . . -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour! -- W.S. Gilbert
Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television. -- Jimmy Carter

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