Idiocies Quotes

#1. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

Herman Melville

#2. To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

Noel Coward

#3. What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#4. California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices ...

Gertrude Atherton

#5. Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and get scolded. Seems to me it'd be a whole lot easier for the to just stay home in their pj's, eat pancakes, and get yelled at over the radion.

Beth Hoffman

#6. One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant.

Vaughan Williams

#8. It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

#9. For if humanity has a future on this planet of a hundred million years, it is unthinkable that it should spend those aeons in a ferment of national self-satisfaction and chauvinistic idiocies.

William Golding

#10. There's something really sweet about the way he's playing the part and he's kind of irresistible in a way. They're both really lonely. That's kind of established from the very beginning in the movie. The way they meet is just classic, lonely losers.

Mary-Louise Parker

#11. I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

Laurie Lee

#12. Time alone is pornography for people with families.

Victor LaValle

#13. She decided that every time her father or her mother was beastly to her, she would get her own back in some way or another. A small victory or two would help her to tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy.

Roald Dahl

#14. Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

George Santayana

#15. There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

Maya Angelou