Idiot Quotes - Page 8

• The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Eye, Paris

  Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.379

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• I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

  John Lennon

  Music, Art, Resentment

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• To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

  Nostradamus

  War, Leader, Heirs

  Nostradamus (2013). “The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Country, Winning, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.21, Full Moon Publications

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• At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator’s house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?

  Erick Erickson

  People, House, March

  "At What Point Do People Revolt?" by Erick Erickson, www.redstate.com. March 31, 2009.

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• Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Speak, Speak The Truth

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• Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal.

  Sark

  Forget, Ideals

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• There's a lot of idiots in the world, so live with it.

  Karl Pilkington

  World

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• But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

  Basil Bunting

  Determination, Fool, Absolutes

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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• The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

  David Weber

  World, Second Best, Worst

  David Weber (2013). “The Honor of the Queen, Second Edition”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot. So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.'

  Stephen Colbert

  Character, Self, Giving

  "Colbert spoofs cable news on Daily Show spinoff". Associated Press report, October 31, 2005.

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• Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, London, Brilliant

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

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• The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.

  Omar Khayyam

  People, Secret, Mystery

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• We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Hbo, Broadway, Directors

  "Billie Joe Armstrong and Lee Kirk on Ordinary World, Jamming With Fred Armisen, and Turning 40". Interview with Dee Lockett, www.vulture.com. Ocotber 16, 2016.

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• Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.

  Christopher Titus

  Practice, Abortion, Devil

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

  Darryl F. Zanuck

  Art, Entertainment

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• I think it's good to know more than the average guy. If I'm in a bar now and some pretty girl is talking to some handsome 24-year-old man, I'll say, "Okay, who's the emperor after Caligula? What chief mistake did Marcus Aurelius make in choosing a successor?" He'll just look like an idiot. She'll just gravitate toward me, I'm thinking. It works in Detroit.

  Emo Philips

  Girl, Mistake, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Believe, Mean, People

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mom, Dad, Book

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mistake, People, Looks

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Want, Objects

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.360, Baen Books

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• A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Liars, Men, Fearless

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• People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'

  Dave Barry

  Mean, People, Use

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• I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

  Terry Richardson

  Cameras, Snapshots, Proof

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• By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.

  Gerald Durrell

  Children, War, Garden

  "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.

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