Dull Witted Quotes

#1. As Thomas Hobbes said, If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Mortimer J. Adler

#2. Have you noticed how few men in the peerage are young and nice-looking?" Lillian asked wryly. "Most of them are dull-witted, ancient, or possess the kind of face that should have a hook in its mouth.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. Few men are true masters over their women. In truth, I would eye with suspicion any woman who acts as if that is the truth. Either she lies, or she is so dull-witted or weak-spirited that she will make you a tedious wife.

Hannah Howell

#4. History comforts the dull-witted,"" the young Malazan said.
Beneth barked a laugh as he reached the gate. "And whose words are those, Pella? Not yours."
The guard's brows rose, then shrugged. "I forget you're Korelri sometimes, Beneth. Those words? Emperor Kellanved.

Steven Erikson

#5. Do not say (your) body is weak and so lack courage. Do not say (you) are dull-witted and cease (training). Do not say complications cause (you) to give up halfway. Do not let circumstances cause you to break off. In all things under heaven, a really determined person will find a solution.

Scott M. Rodell

#6. An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Mao Zedong

#7. The public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. Talk with a comfortable tempo - too fast sounds nervous and you might lose the audience, too slow can come across as dull-witted.

Glen Wilson

#9. It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.

Robertson Davies

#10. A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

Orhan Pamuk

#11. And Anatole, with the partiality dull-witted people have for any conclusion they have reached by their own reasoning, repeated the argument he had already put to Dolokhov a hundred times.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. Just what we need.A dull-witted lord," Constance mused. "At least he doesn't seem menacing anymore."
Just wait,old woman, and you will learn just how menacing this dull-witted lord can be, Ranulf promised.

Michele Sinclair

#13. demands the utmost in wisdom, in attack, in endurance. Violence is simple and easy, it is the sword of the stupid and dull-witted, and it always leaves chaos. To carry on a positive revolution without violence - ah, that is a challenge to intelligence!

Pearl S. Buck

#14. Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

Lloyd Alexander

#15. I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God.

Harry Lennix

#16. In the township, as well as everywhere else, the people is the only source of power; but in no stage of government does the body of citizens exercise a more immediate influence.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity?

Brian Baird

#18. By correcting your daily life which includes your thoughts too, you can save yourself from many bad experiences of life.

Puneet Kumar

#19. When you make feeling good a priority, that magnificent frequency will radiate and touch everyone close to you.

Rhonda Byrne

#20. God's grace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials of believers. Saints

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#21. Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

Rita Mae Brown

#22. I've always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn't get the spontaneous gene or the adventure one, really. After going through the day with its stresses, when I shut that door at night, I don't have to deal with anything but dinner, 'E.R.' and my bathrobe.

Caroline Knapp

#23. Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

Plato

#24. Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.
Not I, quoth my uncle.
- But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.
No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.

Laurence Sterne

#25. It is you, Ren murmured. His words unsettled her: Not for the first time, he seemed to know more about her than she did about herself.

Alan Dean Foster

#26. The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

Pat Conroy

#27. ... it occurs to me how often laughter accompanies tears

David Arnold

#28. I think that one of my favorite movie roles has been a film that I did with Jason Statham that was out last year called 'Safe.' I played the main bad guy in that.

Reggie Lee

#29. A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are
but with the way they ought to be.

Joseph Pulitzer

#30. If in Doubt, don't do it

Leo Tolstoy

#31. A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

Magha

#32. I am not doing this in front of everyone," Simon announced.
"It's not spin the bottle, Simon," said Clary. "It's just food. Not that you're food, Alec," she added when he glared. She held her hands up. "Never mind.

Cassandra Clare