“If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.”
1 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV)
First Epistle to the Corinthians
“Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house.”
Source: Hamlet
Last update Sept. 28, 2023.
History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house." by William Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare 699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
Charles Spurgeon
(1834–1892) British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist
The Lover of God's Law Filled with Peace (January 1888) http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols34-36/chs2004.pdf
“Let him play,” whispered Cheeta. “Let him make believe that he’s alive again.”
Mervyn Peake
book
Titus Alone
Source: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 105 (p. 1000)
Book II, Chapter 3, "The Shocking Alternative"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Context: I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
Samuel Butler
(1835–1902) novelist
Dogs
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
“The Soul selects her own Society —
Then — shuts the Door —
To her divine Majority —
Present no more”
303: The Soul selects her own Society --
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Andrey Voznesensky
(1933–2010) Soviet poet
Stanley Kunitz (trans.) Story Under Full Sail (New York: Doubleday, 1974) p. 20.