Top 28 Quotes About Twaddle
#1. Give me needy emotional whining bullshit.
Flash.
Give me self-absorbed egocentric twaddle.
Christ.
Chuck Palahniuk
#2. 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
#4. [To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
Queen Victoria
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter ... with alliteration, no less!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#9. 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
#10. Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#11. 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
#12. I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
Katherine Mansfield
#13. 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
#14. What's the book like?"
"Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!
David Mitchell
#15. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.
Thomas Huxley
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil
Dennis Prager
#20. 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
#21. ...she called, 'Mother, come out, someone's here, he brought the rain.
Zsuzsa Bank
#22. Most girls got flowers. I got a dirt pit used for demon raising. Nice.
Rachel Hawkins
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. That's my brother," I said. "Saving the world, one girl at a time.
Kim Harrington
