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“Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, This Isn't What It Looks Like

“The clown figure has had so many meanings in different times and cultures. The jolly, well-loved joker familiar to most people is actually but one aspect of this protean creature. Madmen, hunchbacks, amputees, and other abnormals were once considered natural clowns; they were elected to fulfill a comic role which could allow others to see them as ludicrous rather than as terrible reminders of the forces of disorder in the world. But sometimes a cheerless jester was required to draw attention to this same disorder, as in the case of King Lear's morbid and honest fool, who of course was eventually hanged, and so much for his clownish wisdom. Clowns have often had ambiguous and sometimes contradictory roles to play. ("The Last Feast Of The Harlequin")”
― Thomas Ligotti, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now

“The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit on which the grotesque is based destroys this limited seriousness and all pretense of an extratemporal meaning and unconditional value of necessity. It frees human consciousness, thought, and imagination for new potentialities. For this reason, great changes, even in the field of science, are always preceded by a certain carnival consciousness that prepares the way.”
― Mikhail Bakhtin

“The secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“As I drifted along with my bodiless invisibility, I felt myself more and more becoming an empty, floating shape, seeing without being seen and walking without the interference of those grosser creatures who shared my world. It was not an experience completely without interest or even pleasure. The clown's shibboleth of "here we are again" took on a new meaning for me as I felt myself a novitiate of a more rarified order of harlequinry. ("The Last Feast Of The Harlequin")”
― Thomas Ligotti, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now

“A jester unemployed is nobody's fool!”
― Danny Kaye, The Court Jester

“Are you an evolutionist?

I’m an absurdist, ma’am. But let’s suppose evolution is true; what about the monkeys today? Why can’t we see them evolving? Are they still evolving?”
― Harrison Wheeler, Jesters Incognito: Live Like a King. Hire a Jester.

“Kings kill; jesters don’t; therefore the jesters of the kings are more valuable than the kings!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The laughing, joking court jester, who is in reality a Shaman, has all the respect of a king, for there has always been an element of danger lurking about beneath the surface of his smile”
― Karl Wiggins

“Listen! The court jester's cap and bells. The King is coming!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“You have the inspiration of a jester, the soul of a backpacker and the heart of a warrior, and you’ve already done much better than you appreciate. You’re supported more than you realise. You’re in spitting distance now, just around the corner

Each and every one of you is a work of art. Not everyone’s going to accept you, but the ones who do will never forget you. Come on, admit it, you’re not like the others, are you? And that’s not just okay, it’s fucking beautiful!

Always remember, when you’re stuck between two planets, the only thing you can do is try something absurd.

â€�.. And you may just hear a river start.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“She cried out in alarm as Jester pushed her against the vanity roughly, pinning her hands before she could cast a spell.
“Naughty, sneaky little fox.”
― Jay Pellegrin, Wizard's Masquerade

“Self-proclaimed kings are often seen as jesters.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“There are so many ways to exit towards the Light, but with my luck, I'd be the one electrocuted by Diwali lights. Or the one who cracks her head falling off a footstool. I'd still be a jester, leaving the audience with a stitch in their sides.”
― Amruta Patil, Kari

“I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.”
― Peter David, Sir Apropos of Nothing

“A jester is twice a judge.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“She cried out in alarm as Jester pushed her against the vanity roughly, pinning her hands before she could cast a spell.
“Naughty, sneaky little fox,â€� he said.”
― Jay Pellegrinnw

“She cried out in alarm as Jester pushed her against the vanity roughly, pinning her hands before she could cast a spell.
“Naughty, sneaky little fox,â€� he said.”
― Jay Pellegrin

“Naughty, sneaky little fox.”
― Jay Pellegrin, Wizard's Masquerade

“There were times when jesters made people laugh. Now days, they make them cry.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“The King’s Wit was not a silly court fool such as one might find in other kingdoms. He was a sword, a tool maintained by the king. Insulting others was beneath the dignity of the king, so just as one used gloves when forced to handle something vile, the king retained a Wit so he didn’t have to debase himself to the level of rudeness or offensiveness.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (2 of 5)

“...which was the real Antoine: the one who would stand mesmerised in front of the window on rainy afternoons watching the drops racing across the glass, or the one who turned the attic upside down and then suddenly appeared disguised as a buccaneer or an explorer shouting ridiculous phrases in order to amuse his sisters and cousins.

He asks himself that very question. Who am I? The court jester who shakes his bells when he’s with others, or the silent introvert I am when I’m on my own?”
― Antonio Iturbe, The Prince of the Skies

“Like a true jester, even his own pain was just a joke. He would stub his toe, and laugh and dance and sing different songs he never wrote; he would go, 'Ouch! Without a doubt! Shout it out loud! And pout about it!' And very much so, they all loved such a dumb way to cope.”
― Criss Jami