Half Witted Quotes

#1. Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

Julie Burchill

#2. One damn sure thing! - he wasn't going to let them be rough with that Smith lad. He was a nuisance, granted, but he was a nice lad and rather appealing in a helpless, half-witted way.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted. Because it is impossible to portray the full width and breadth of everything that you are up against.

Simon Norfolk

#5. Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law ... that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

H.L. Mencken

#7. Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

Christopher Lee

#8. What is love worth in this broken world? Nothing!" he spat. "Absolutely nothing. Love won't feed you. Love won't rescue you from starvation. Grow up, Abbey. I didn't raise you to be half-witted and so mentally defective.

Dan C. Thompson

#9. I stopped being half-witted and became sly whenever I took the trouble.

Samuel Beckett

#10. Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf herder.

George Lucas

#11. The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.

Anand Neelakantan

#12. Back so soon?" he asked. "Too bad. I was just about to organize a search for your dead body. What happened when you knocked on the southerner magician's door to sacrifice yourself? Did they kick you out, thinking you too half-witted to waste their time on?

Maria V. Snyder

#13. Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

Pericles

#15. Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.

Doris Lessing

#16. The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.

Mark Russell

#17. I let you go, Harold, because you were not mine and you never would be. You belonged to your wife.

Rachel Joyce

#18. God created man to care for the earth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. I'm an engineer by trade so I've always been interested in engineering and technology but also I've a strong interest in self build and off-grid properties and how it would affect us in terms of lifestyle.

Andy Griffiths

#20. He was a likable man: sweet-tempered, ready-witted, frank, without grins of suppressed bitterness or other conversational flavors which make half of us an affliction to our friends.

George Eliot

#21. Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is ... Matter and energy are interrelated.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#22. There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

Simone Weil

#23. Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

Edward L. Bernays

#24. I want my teammates to understand that when No. 5 says something to you, that means it's very important because he doesn't talk a lot. If I'm saying something to you, it's going to help you.

Manti Te'o

#25. Jesus refused to produce a sign.. because it was not the Father's will, nor his, to be Messiah.

John Hagee