Top 30 Quotes About Dunces
#2. ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
Ambrose Bierce
#3. We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.
C.S. Lewis
#4. I have worked with some of the greatest minds in astrophysics and it is now clear that they were the dunces of astrobiology.
Steven Magee
#5. But you are a charming and beautiful dunces, madame. And," he continued in French, "a charming and beautiful woman
can get away with murder. Can you imagine that any man here would prosecute you for assassinating our language?
Loretta Chase
#6. I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
Tamara Feldman
#7. In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#8. The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
C.S. Lewis
#9. The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.
John Hay
#11. It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
Charles Caleb Colton
#12. Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces.
Jill Ciment
#13. I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.
Stephan Pastis
#14. VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
Ambrose Bierce
#15. When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
#16. Sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.
Corra May Harris
#17. When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
Jonathan Swift
#18. Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
Poppy Z. Brite
#19. The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
Ivan Turgenev
#20. When, on your dangerous mission gone,
You underrate our foes as dunces,
Be wary, not of sudden gun,
But of your partner at the dances.
Stanley Kunitz
#21. It is unclear if corporate governments are truly the dunces of human health or if they are just faking it in order to propagate a biologically toxic agenda on an unsuspecting global population.
Steven Magee
#22. Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt?
Jonathan Swift
#23. When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
[Thoughts on Various Subjects]
Jonathan Swift
#24. The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli
#26. The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.
Daniel Tosh
#28. Whoa! If I'm gonna be a doorman, I gonna be the mos sabotagin doorman ever guarded a plantation. Ooo-wee. The cotton fiel be burn to the groun before I'm through."
Watch out, Jones. Don be getting yourself in no trouble."
Whoa!
John Kennedy Toole
#30. Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.
John Kennedy Toole
