Imbeciles Quotes - Page 2

• How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

  Olive Schreiner

  Writing, Looks, Paper

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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• There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Men, Stupidity, World

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• He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Writing, Use, Half

  Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.34, Vintage

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• Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Firsts, Always Smile

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.60, Penguin

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• Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!

  Claude Debussy

  Idols, Ubiquity, Common Sense

  Claude Debussy, François Lesure, Roger Nichols (1987). “Debussy Letters: ,”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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• The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

  Roberto Rossellini

  Cameras, Ballpoint Pens, Ifs

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• ...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Spring, Skeletons, Self

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• Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Understanding, Progress

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• The mother of the imbecile is always pregnant.

  Vincenzo Nibali

  Mother, Pregnant

  "Vincenzo Nibali escapes public grilling on drugs in Tour de France" by William Fotheringham, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2014.

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• When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Broken Heart, Children, Broken Promises

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• Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Beautiful, Children, Mets

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• An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Bored, Contemplating

  Remy de Gourmont (1928). “Remy de Gourmont: Selections from All His Works”

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• You mean to say that when an imbecile walks into a church, office, day care center, or school, stumbling about, almost zombie-like, with gun-filled hands at his side, blabbering incoherently to his next victim, the reaction of grown men and women is to run, cry, whimper, and hide under a desk or pew? The sheeping of America is nearly complete.

  Ted Nugent

  Running, School, Mean

  Ted Nugent (2001). “God, Guns & Rock'N'Roll”, p.43, Regnery Publishing

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• I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.

  E. M. Forster

  Air, Expression, Names

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• An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

  Billy Wilder

  Work, Dark, Together

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• It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Cutting, Eugenics, Waiting

  Buck v. Bell (1927)

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• The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.

  Rick Yancey

  Drinking, Men, Doctors

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.

  Simon Jordan

  Regret, Fans, Calling

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• If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Writing, Survival

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• The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Men, Rose, Firsts

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• There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, War, Fighting

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• It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

  Brigham Young

  People, Care, Poor

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• A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

  Alfred Binet

  Intellectual, May, Littles

  Alfred Binet (1977). “Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920”

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• The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Mean, Democracy, Three

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• Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social order based on free association and democratic control, if we have the will to create it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Men, Order

  Noam Chomsky (2003). “For Reasons Of State”, p.404, Penguin Books India

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