A Confederacy Of Dunces Quotes

#1. I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.

Stephan Pastis

#2. I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

Tamara Feldman

#3. Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

Poppy Z. Brite

#4. I have my own. I don't believe in religion, just as you mentioned. I think it does more harm than good. Believers see it as the one truth, non believers see it as trash and king's use it for power. Not one of them is right.

Celia Mcmahon

#5. Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

John Kennedy Toole

#6. Whoa! If I'm gonna be a doorman, I gonna be the mos sabotagin doorman ever guarded a plantation. Ooo-wee. The cotton fiel be burn to the groun before I'm through."
Watch out, Jones. Don be getting yourself in no trouble."
Whoa!

John Kennedy Toole

#7. We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

Judge Mills Lane

#8. Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces.

Jill Ciment

#9. A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

Barbara Kingsolver

#10. When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
[Thoughts on Various Subjects]

Jonathan Swift

#11. I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first record player when I was six years old as well as a Karen Carpenter record.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#12. All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.

Maren Elwood

#13. Connie could make her feel slow and bovine; the way she'd suddenly snap her head around and bark a question that would leave Margie fumbling for an answer.

Liane Moriarty

#14. Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

Samuel Johnson

#15. When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

#16. I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.

Sanjay Kumar

#17. As I near the end of my life...
I have determined that
Most of the things I have learned
Will be of little value to me
At the end of my Life".

Stephen Wehunt