Harlequin King Quotes & Sayings

Seeing and inspiring the best in others requires God's vision. - Dena Netherton — Gary Chapman

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

He who says A must say B too; and he who consents the first time must also the second. — Jacob Grimm

When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing. — Radhanath Swami

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say. — Nick Hornby

Even when they are saturated in the sense of the older theory of valence, the elementary atoms still possess sufficient chemical affinity to bind other seemingly also saturated atoms and groups of atoms, under generation of clearly defined atomic bonds. — Alfred Werner