Idiot Quotes - Page 22

• I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.

  Jim Butcher

  Children, Mean, Men

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.145, Penguin

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• Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Stupid, People, Confusion

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• That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. [to Inara] Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Rain, Good Luck

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Did I hear God call me an idiot?

  William P. Young

  Call Me

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• Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Three, Failing, Three Times

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• I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or it’s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If you’re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. You’re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  School, Offering, Order

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• I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

  John Green

  Hipster, Paper, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.70, A&C Black

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• Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.

  Clint Eastwood

  Believe, People, Age

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• It will take time to restore chaos

  George W. Bush

  Chaos, Take Time

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• Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Memories, Real

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.219, Harper Collins

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• You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly. "Not where I'm aiming, sir.

  Terry Pratchett

  Voice, Captains, Would Be

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• Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

  Charles Dickens

  Opportunity, Energy, Deuces

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• Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. "I'm glad you're not a guinea pig." "Me, too." I hoped my face wasn't as red as it felt.

  Rick Riordan

  Pigs, Hug, Red

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Want, Felons, Minors

  Louisa May Alcott (2000). “The Portable Louisa May Alcott”, p.503, Penguin

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• The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

  Orhan Pamuk

  School, Istanbul, People

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Mar 10, 2013

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• Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.

  Nobuhiro Watsuki

  Running, Excuse

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• Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

  Enid Blyton

  Littles

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• But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land." (Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots)

  Dave Barry

  Sea, Land, Pirate

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• She really did like me, the idiot.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Like Me

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.26, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Sports, Looking Good, Spectators

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.51, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Feels, Knows

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• The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing. Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the scaled lip only three feet from Jack. The golden eyes gazed at him, wirling with fiery color. Jack breathed in tiny, shallow breaths. Dont blink. Don't blink... Two gusts of wind erutped from the wyvern's nostrils Jack jumped straight up, bounced off the ground into another jump, and scrambled up the nearest tree. In the clearing, Gaston bent over, guffawing like an idiot. 'It's not funny!

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Dark, Color

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• I’m home. Ya happy now?’ Beck’s gravelly voice demanded. ‘Yes, I am.’ ‘Yer’ treatin’ me like i’m some idiot kid,’ he complained. ‘Gee, I wonder where I learned that?’ He hung up on her.

  Jana Oliver

  Home, Kids, Voice

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.602, Pan Macmillan

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• We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Wall, Hard Work, Fighting

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