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FOLLY

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folly substantiv

prostie, absurditate; nesăbuinţă, nebunie;

a piece of folly o nebunie;

the height of folly culmea prostiei / a absurdităţii.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

All have not your powers, and it would be folly for the feeble to wish to march with the strong.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Heaven forbid that Henry Tilney should ever know her folly!

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

My dear Fanny, replied Edmund, scarcely hearing her to the end, let us not, any of us, be judged by what we appeared at that period of general folly.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

And the next moment she was hating herself for the folly which asked the question.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

"I have not a doubt of it," said Marianne; "and I have nothing to regret—nothing but my own folly."

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

It was folly to be disturbed by it.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted, than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

And it must be owned, that seven months were a sufficient time to correct every vice and folly to which Yahoos are subject, if their natures had been capable of the least disposition to virtue or wisdom.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

This was my second folly, far worse than the first, as I left but two sound men to guard the house; but like the first, it was a help towards saving all of us.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

It may be profitable to that gentleman to know, sir, that I attribute my past follies, entirely to having lived a thoughtless life in the service of young men; and to having allowed myself to be led by them into weaknesses, which I had not the strength to resist.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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