Top 61 Quotes About Imbeciles
#1. 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
#2. I am just wondering how this world would be if everyone done their job competently and efficiently. I am so tired of imbeciles. I do believe their function on this earth is to torment those who have common sense.
Patricia H. Graham
#3. In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.
Simon Jordan
#4. Most of the time, it is not imbeciles or bigots who do the most stupid things. Some of the most problematic things are done by some of the smartest people.
Mats Alvesson
#5. I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.
Morrie Brickman
#8. The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men.
Freda Adler
#9. Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas
#11. As long as imbeciles are around, The crooked will cash out.
Cyrus J. Kayvan
#12. The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
Vanessa Paradis
#14. Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.
Paul Cezanne
#15. Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!
Claude Debussy
#16. Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
Jeanne Moreau
#17. And it is a great fact of history that the most mediocre and well-meaning imbeciles can strike down the mighty with surprising effectiveness when there is such a huge disparity of souls.
Anne Rice
#18. There are men on that Commission who would steal the brakes off a mountain railway just before they went down in it...It's a struggle with suicidal imbeciles.
The Secret Places of The Heart (Kindle Location 59)
H.G.Wells
#19. Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.
Frederick The Great
#21. I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas
#22. The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.
Rick Yancey
#23. They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
Constantin Brancusi
#24. We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#25. It was not a matter, mind you, of the certainty I had of being more intelligent than everyone else. Besides, such certainty is of no consequence because so many imbeciles share it.
Albert Camus
#26. Never could think of prostitutes as human beings or even as women. They seemed more like imbeciles or lunatics. But in their arms I felt absolute security. I could sleep soundly.
Osamu Dazai
#27. One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.
Georges Courteline
#28. As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
Ernest Renan
#29. One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.
Georges Courteline
#30. The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
Voltaire
#31. Trying to figure out how to best manage his time between doing a task for imbeciles and avoiding imminent and painful death by protocol. I
Sam Sykes
#32. In my experience, eloquent men are right every bit as often as imbeciles.
George R R Martin
#33. 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
#34. Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
Horace Greeley
#35. The American psychologists classified persons on the basis of IQ tests, labeling those judged feebleminded in descending order as morons, imbeciles, or idiots
Henry Friedlander
#36. I sometimes wonder if the world is run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who mean it.
Mark Twain
#37. If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C.S. Lewis
#38. 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
#39. There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
Hippolyte Taine
#40. When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new 'niches for imbeciles' were opened up. You
Yuval Noah Harari
#41. Moreover, each man's malevolence quite involuntarily exaggerated the other's importance, as if the chief of villains were confronting the king of imbeciles.
Marcel Proust
#42. Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.
Horace Greeley
#43. Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
Laurence J. Peter
#44. The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.
Harlan Ellison
#45. The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
Rosa Bonheur
#46. Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz
#47. I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
Molly Ringwald
#48. As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.
George Bernard Shaw
#50. To believe everything is to be an imbecile.
To deny everything is to be a fool.
Charles Nodier
#51. 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
#52. The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#53. Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.
Charles Davenport
#54. Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
Ezra Pound
#55. No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.
Herman Wouk
#56. It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.
Brigham Young
#57. He denounced him openly as a charlatan
a fraud with no valuable knowledge of any kind, or powers beyond those of an ordinary and rather inferior human being.
Mark Twain
#58. 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
#59. Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.
Claude Debussy
#60. The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.
Roberto Rossellini
#61. The satisfaction an imbecile derives from having right on his side and being certain of success is especially irritating.
Marcel Proust
