Knavish Imbecility Quotes

#1. The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.

Hilaire Belloc

#2. An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Hilaire Belloc

#3. Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open.

Jo Walton

#4. I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.

Tom Rachman

#5. She kisses like a sweet devouring, and I don't know where to touch her because I want all of her.

John Green

#6. When you're a Catholic kid, the nuns teach you that when something is annoying you, you "offer it up", as a sacrificial gift.

Rob Sheffield

#7. I didn't write the rules. Why would I follow them?

W. Eugene Smith

#8. Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi.

Tia Mowry

#9. But once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality. You would do well to remember that.

Haruki Murakami

#10. He still smelled of limes. It made saliva come into her mouth. It made her feel that before she had been sleepy, and now she was awake.

Monica Ali

#11. She should not have taken any of these people at face value. She had been naive. But this conclusion, she realized, pointed unambiguously in the direction of cynicism. And she would not be a cynic. It was better to be naive, much better.

Alexander McCall Smith

#12. I was an avidly pro-life governor; I'm an avidly pro-life individual. As a pro-life Republican, I am in favor of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.

Mitt Romney

#13. peace and happiness and wisdom, and these once lost are harder to recapture.

Anonymous

#14. When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.

Emile Zola

#15. Hey, you're the one who can't stand me being so close to you.

Justine Dell

#16. Valium would have helped that bash.

Lou Reed