Quotes About Twaddle

#1. The volume of twaddle from critics is directly proportional to the distance you keep from them. There is always room to spread your wings when you fly solo.

J.N. Race

#2. That's my brother," I said. "Saving the world, one girl at a time.

Kim Harrington

#3. Give me needy emotional whining bullshit.
Flash.
Give me self-absorbed egocentric twaddle.
Christ.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.

Thomas Huxley

#6. A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

Victor Hugo

#7. What's the book like?"
"Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!

David Mitchell

#8. The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

Charlie Munger

#9. I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

Katherine Mansfield

#10. Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

Adolf Loos

#11. With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except hate and greed and distrust.

Paul G. Hoffman

#12. Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#13. I think the notion that liquidity of tradable common stock is a great contributor to capitalism is mostly twaddle. The liquidity gives us these crazy booms, so it has as many problems as virtues.

Charlie Munger

#14. Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#15. All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Marcel Duchamp

#16. It 'appens to be true. An' if'n yew want ter stay moi friend, yew'd best 'old yer turpitudinous twaddle of a tongue an' listen fer once.

Peter St. John

#17. Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter ... with alliteration, no less!

E.A. Bucchianeri

#18. Most girls got flowers. I got a dirt pit used for demon raising. Nice.

Rachel Hawkins

#19. We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

Charlotte Mason

#20. ...she called, 'Mother, come out, someone's here, he brought the rain.

Zsuzsa Bank

#21. Behind the barricade there may be much that is noble and heroic. But what is there behind the leading-article but prejudice, stupidity, cant, and twaddle? And when these four are joined together they make a terrible force, and constitute the new authority.

Oscar Wilde

#22. When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#23. [To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

Queen Victoria

#24. A prominent Chicago politician, Justin Butterfield, asked if he was against the Mexican War, replied: no, I opposed one War [the War of 1812]. That was enough for me. I am now perpetually in favor of war, pestilence and famine.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#25. Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.

Katherine Mansfield

#26. No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.

W.S. Gilbert

#27. Jewish voters are not one homogenous block.

Ken Livingstone

#28. Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

Dennis Prager