Imbecile Quotes

#1. He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Olive Schreiner

#3. Furo Costas. The Rager. You, my friend, are an imbecile. You could have killed me twenty times, on the Tracks. I'm surprised you're not dead.
Ro shrugs, happily. It's nothing he hasn't heard before, and nothing he doesn't see as a compliment.

Margaret Stohl

#4. You're such an imbecile, you know that?"

"Yet, here you sit next to me trying to catch my attention with your legs. Is this your way of showing me what's on offer, because I have news for you, Chelsea, I ain't buying it. So what do you want?

Heidi McLaughlin

#5. The satisfaction an imbecile derives from having right on his side and being certain of success is especially irritating.

Marcel Proust

#6. An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.

Gerard De Nerval

#8. Is it rational to believe in a bad God? Anyway, in a God so bad as all that? The Cosmic Sadist, the spiteful imbecile?

C.S. Lewis

#9. I'm perfectly discriminating,' he said with a devilish smile.
'How's that? No blondes after Labour Day?'
'I said I was discriminating, not an imbecile.

Ally Blake

#10. When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.

Lina Wertmuller

#11. Men are naturally unequal. They are unequal members of one family, in which one can be brilliant, another mediocre, and another an imbecile. Hereditary substance is a mystery.

Tutea Petre

#12. Great. I get to meet Jack Eversea, the Jack Eversea, and I act like a complete imbecile. It was so good Jazz wasn't here, she would have clobbered me by now. For that matter, she would have clobbered him and dragged him back to her lair.

Natasha Boyd

#13. You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is,
though some in less degree, or less perceptibly, than their fellows.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#14. Katherine, who tried so hard in London to be best friends with Virginia Woolf, who hated her, because Katherine was the kind of naif-imbecile that the literary men adored and championed at her expense.

Chris Kraus

#15. The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

Roberto Rossellini

#16. When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

Confucius

#17. An animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the first of those thousand years. Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#18. When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I think of Adam in those pre-marital days. I know he's your great-to-the-nth-degree-granddad and all - but I'm afraid he was rather an imbecile.

Glen Duncan

#19. Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

Claude Debussy

#20. A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

H.L. Mencken

#21. The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

Robert Anton Wilson

#22. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.

Patrick O'Brian

#23. And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#24. It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

Brigham Young

#25. In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition of sameness.

Michel Houellebecq

#26. Would you like to become my wife?"
"Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!

Marjane Satrapi

#27. The ability to consume pornography is the distinctive characteristic of the imbecile.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#28. An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

Billy Wilder

#29. The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.

David Steinberg

#30. When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

Victoria Woodhull

#31. There are knives that glitter like altars
In a dark church
Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
To be healed.
There's a woden block where bones are broken,
Scraped clean
a river dried to its bed

Charles Simic

#32. I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!

Amanda Peet

#33. What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?'
'Cherish them and raise them, you imbecile. Most of them end up working for us, in Karthain and elsewhere. What did you think we'd do, burn them on a pyre?'
'Forget I asked

Scott Lynch

#34. An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

Remy De Gourmont

#35. What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.

Blaise Pascal

#36. No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.

Herman Wouk

#37. Graves leaned forward, eyeing me. "Hey, Dru. You were french-kissing a winged snake. creeptastic."
"I was stealing her breath, imbecile. go get a towel." christophe shoved him, and graves shoved back.

Lili St. Crow

#38. It may be asked how so imbecile and dangerous a creed ever came to be accepted by intelligent beings. I will answer that question more fully in my next volume of plays, which will be entirely devoted to the subject. For

George Bernard Shaw

#39. The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

Warren Cuccurullo

#40. There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

Umberto Eco

#41. It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel. -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

Lilith Saintcrow

#42. Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

Ayn Rand

#43. Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle.

Immortal Technique

#44. By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

C.P. Snow

#45. No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Caesar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

George Bernard Shaw

#46. Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture.
Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

Agatha Christie

#47. I had warned her that lawyers shouldn't marry other lawyers, that it only led to imbecile paralegals.

Craig Johnson

#48. When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

George Bernard Shaw

#49. Miss Wetherell lived by the will of the dragon, after all, a drug that played steward to an imbecile king, and she would guard that throne with jealous eyes forever.

Eleanor Catton

#50. I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.

Lennox Lewis

#51. What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin
to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.

Henry Miller

#52. It's the look you give a well-behaved imbecile, an insurance policy against cosmic malevolence.

Dominic Smith

#53. To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

David Hume

#54. Fuck, I think. Just that. A multitude of various fucks all in one great big clusterfuck. As in: I am fucked if I want this ... this ... newborn imbecile. And she is so fucked if I take her. And fuck if I'm going to walk away.

Karen Marie Moning

#55. Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Noam Chomsky

#56. I think Wallace Hall is an imbecile.

Joe Jamail

#57. Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

Ezra Pound

#58. The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#59. You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.

Jacques Anquetil

#60. Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

Charles Davenport

#61. On Closure
I don't think there's ever closure, " Bill says. He has thought about this. "I think whoever came up with that concept's an imbecile.

Ryan D'Agostino

#62. If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

Umberto Eco

#63. To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Robert E. Sherwood

#64. Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Albert Schweitzer

#65. Decidedly it was the policy of an imbecile.

Agatha Christie

#66. I enrage myself with an imbecile. I say, 'I would like to kick him.' Instead I kick the table. I say, 'This table, it is the imbecile, I kick him so.

Agatha Christie

#67. Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile - an idiot.

Edgar Allan Poe

#68. He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.

Ford Madox Ford

#69. Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you ... "
... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible.
"Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?

Eoin Colfer

#70. The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#71. The golden apples drop from the same tree, whether they be gathered by an imbecile locksmith's apprentice or by a Schopenhauer.

C. G. Jung

#72. The usage seems first to have made its appearance on the floor of the Convention in the context of insults. In February the deputy Thomas used the familiar form to rebuke Marat for one of his outbursts: "Shut up, you imbecile!

Timothy Tackett

#73. Bronze gods, Mikani. You've seen death before. Bloody hells, we've buried friends together, you and I."
"She's different, Hu."
"Then tell her that before it's too late, you sodding imbecile.

A.A. Aguirre

#74. Parsons was Winston's fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms
one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended.

George Orwell

#75. Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies; the important and the hard thing is to make friends easily and keep them as friends always!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#76. Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social order based on free association and democratic control, if we have the will to create it.

Noam Chomsky

#77. She was not going to ruin a good dress for a pot of drooling, wall-staring, imbecile grass. And that was that.

Brandon Sanderson

#78. I thought you were dead," Bera breathed.
Cadsuane sniffed irritably. "I am growing tired of hearing that. The next imbecile I hear it from is going to yelp for a week.

Robert Jordan

#79. The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.

Joseph Conrad

#80. I would rather be considered an imbecile, than an old fashioned and dry gal.

Mary Sage Nguyen

#81. I take the measure of the ridiculous, superfluous cats who wander through our lives with all the placidity and indifference of an imbecile are in fact the guardians of life's good and joyful moments, and of its happy web, even beneath the canopy of misfortune.

Muriel Barbery

#82. To believe everything is to be an imbecile.
To deny everything is to be a fool.

Charles Nodier

#83. Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me ... only he's an imbecile.

Spider Robinson

#84. The mother of the imbecile is always pregnant,

Vincenzo Nibali

#85. I will always choose to be an imbecile. I couldn't cut it as an old fashion, and dry gal.

Mary Sage Nguyen

#86. What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

Blaise Pascal

#87. When I lie down to love,
old dwarf heart shakes her head.
Like an imbecile she was born old.

Anne Sexton

#88. The man looked down at his feet. Tietjens said to himself that it was Valentine Wannop doing this to him. He ought to turn the man down at once. He was pervaded by a sense of her being. It was imbecile. Yet it was so.

Ford Madox Ford

#89. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

Alfred Binet