Idiot's Delight Quotes

#1. Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

Robert E. Sherwood

#2. But don't take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.

Michael Pollan

#3. When I see pot-bellied cyclists wearing the 'maillot jaune,' it appals me.

Bernard Hinault

#4. Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#5. To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

Georges Courteline

#6. She tried to keep her voice steady, but it was pretense, like pretending self-control when something you loved was dead in front of your eyes. They would have to separate here.

Patricia Highsmith

#7. He'd lost the only part of his life that made it worth living because of a couple random fucks. How ridiculous.

Santino Hassell

#8. It worked because I asked justly. Magic makes judgments. Remember that.

Kelly Link

#9. When will I realize that without God my world is draped in shadows between which there is not a single ray of light? And when will I recognize that with God, my world is deluged in light between which there is not a single thread of darkness?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.

LeRoy Neiman

#11. It doesn't seem to matter what we think ... The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.

Shannon Hale

#12. I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

Sharon Olds