Suffer Fools Gladly Quotes

#1. Strong-willed, intelligent, sharp-tongued, doesn't suffer fools gladly ... remind you of anyone?"
"Yes. Gordon."
"Interesting," said the man. "Because those are the exact same words he used to describe you.

Derek Landy

#2. Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

Edsger Dijkstra

#3. I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.

Robin McKinley

#4. Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Holbrook Jackson

#5. Victorian Self-Improvement Affirmations
"I shall venture to do something different after my postprandialconstitutional.
Today, I shall suffer fools gladly.

Beryl Dov

#6. We must suffer fools gladly, otherwise how can we help them stop being fools?

Elan Mastai

#7. I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

Lorrie Moore

#8. The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

Kathleen Turner

#9. I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them.

Harry Secombe

#10. One of the things you need to understand is that I'm not a brave person.
I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly.
The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can produce
character references. But that's something else. I'm not brave.

Robin McKinley

#11. I am a . . . solitary . . . man, he said. 'I do not suffer fools gladly, and I prefer to spend my time alone with a book and a decanter of brandy.

Andy Lane

#12. The truth is that the mountains are a place where you can find whatever you want just by looking, as long as you remember that they do not suffer fools gladly and particularly dislike those with preconceived ideas.

Louis De Bernieres

#13. I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.

Nolan Bushnell

#14. Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

Lester B. Pearson

#15. Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

Oscar Wilde

#16. I was the hero, Roberto De Niro, William Shakespearo! Walking on the beaches, looking at the peaches.

Charlie Higson

#17. Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

Wendy McElroy

#18. I neither suffer myself, nor other fools, gladly.

Alec Guinness

#19. Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

George W. Bush

#20. Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

George Oppen

#21. Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others.

Sayo Masuda

#22. Did you notice there aren't any average kids anymore - only Gifted and Disposable?

Heather Choate Davis

#23. If money could buy us happiness then some of the richest people on earth would be more than one million times more happier!

Avijeet Das

#24. Sometimes, commitment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost.

Jonathan Tropper

#25. The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

Pat Conroy

#26. There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.

Andy Daly

#27. As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

George Bernard Shaw

#28. You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

Greg Plitt

#29. Expectations are emotional signposts that stunt your growth.

Balroop Singh