Nincompoop Quotes

#1. You are yet another nincompoop, who, by being at the wrong place at the wrong time," he said, "was able to set humanitarianism back a full century! Begone!" Strong stuff.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#2. I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#3. The man is a nincompoop and a fool. Even worse, he took me for a fool as well.

John Flanagan

#4. Part of what Brahms and others could never quite get over was that Bruckner the composer of epic symphonies behaved, much of the time, like a nincompoop.

Jan Swafford

#5. Anyone looking at you would write you off as a brainless nincompoop with about as much intelligence as a dead rabbit.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an innocent nincompoop.

J.K. Rowling

#7. It is not against the law to be a nincompoop. If so, I would have a rap sheet as long as my arm.

Sue Ann Jaffarian

#8. Pooh, he's a ninkypoop!" "How do you know?" asked Jane, very interested. "I know because I heard Daddy call him one this morning!" said Michael, and he laughed at Andrew very rudely. "He is not a nincompoop," said Mary Poppins. "And that is that.

P.L. Travers

#9. A person without regrets is a nincompoop.

Mia Farrow

#10. Astronomy is as soil'd at the hands of the Pelhamites as ev'ry other Business in this Kingdom, - and we ever at the mercy of Place-jobbery, as much as any Nincompoop at Court.

Thomas Pynchon

#11. Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop!
The great big greedy nincompoop!

Roald Dahl

#12. Just because you're aware that you're a nincompoop, doesn't make you any less of one.

Michael Kroft

#13. Oh, if there were only a true religion. Fool that I am, I see a Gothic cathedral and venerable stained-glass windows, and my weak heart conjures up the priest to fit the scene. My soul would understand him, my soul has need of him. I only find a nincompoop with dirty hair.

Stendhal

#14. We should give heed to what has been said by the heathen poet: "Do not yield to evils but proceed more boldly against them."15

Martin Luther

#15. Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

Alexander McCall Smith

#16. I enjoyed living in New York City, I liked the premise of the show [ Saturday Night Live], I liked working with a different host every week and different musicians. I always thought, "This is great. I never expected to get this in the first place, so I'm just happy being here."

Kevin Nealon

#17. Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends, the ones I've had since I was 5 years old. Sometimes I wish I could bring Czechoslovakia to America. Then I would be the happiest guy in the world.

Jaromir Jagr

#18. Cube's album Death Certificate: "Let me live my life, if we can no longer live our life, then let us give our life for the liberation and salvation of the black nation.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#19. As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

Jim Rohn

#20. You took the Alkaholik challenge, and lost your balance
You underground, we under water drinkin liquid by the gallons

Xzibit

#21. I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#22. Making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

May Sarton

#23. WHEN A RESTLESS spirit is commissioned, under influence, to solve a riddle for another man, his energies are, at first, readily and faithfully applied.

Eleanor Catton