Dullard's Quotes

#1. The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Max Beerbohm

#2. When you sleep, your dreams are those of a dullard

Patrick DeWitt

#3. I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

Tupac Shakur

#4. He don't read. You know he doesn't have a book in his office? Not a fucking book in the shelves. Ain't that some shit? (Adolph Mongo speaking of Kwame Kilpatrick)

Charlie LeDuff

#5. Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

Philip Jose Farmer

#6. Expect the worst and you can't be disappointed. Optimism is the luxury of the young, the foolish and the dullard.

Luke Scull

#7. But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.

James G. Frazer

#8. I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.

A.R. Rahman

#9. A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. When a demand for intelligent sympathy goes unanswered he is a
too stern disciplinarian who blames himself for having offered a
dullard an opportunity to participate in the warmer movement of a more
highly organised life.

James Joyce

#11. The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

Hakim Bey

#12. Beauty is a blind alley. It is a mountain peak which once reached leads nowhere [ ... ] Beauty is that which satisfies the aesthetic instinct. But who wants to be satisfied? It is only to the dullard that enough is as good as a feast. Let us face it: beauty is a bit of a bore.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. The dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water

Hakim Bey

#14. Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

Rob Lowe

#15. I may not be desperate. But I'm close.

Kristin Billerbeck

#16. Sometimes a milk mustache is just a milk mustache.

Jesse Peyronel

#17. The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.

Ludwig Von Mises

#18. I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

Edmund White

#19. But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

B.F. Skinner

#20. Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

Thomas Carlyle

#21. One-act [plays] are not strikingly remunerative, but, on the other hand, the veriest dullard could not spend more than a week in writing one.

Arnold Bennett