Top 48 Witless Quotes
#1. He did not wring his hands, as do
Those witless men who dare
To try to rear the changeling Hope
In the cave of black Despair.
Oscar Wilde
#2. He roared at me furiously for ten minutes after he finally managed to put out the sulky and determined fire, calling me a witless muttonheaded spawn of pig farmers-"My father's a wood-cutter," I said- "adOf axe-swinging lummocks!" he snarled.
Naomi Novik
#3. Why then should witless man so much misweene
That nothing is but that which he hath seene?
Edmund Spenser
#4. I never understand why all of us are so stupid. All the time we nurse our spurious and witless ego, while looking deep down inside that we cannot live without talking to our loved ones.
Aakash Neeraj Mittal
#5. Half-drunken poetry is the most honest kind of poetry. Too slurred to be eloquent, not slurred enough to be witless.
Sam Sykes
#6. Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
Ian McHarg
#7. Now that I've found you, it scares me witless to think of anything happening. To you. I'm not used to being ... afraid." A sudden realization came to her, "So this is love," she said quietly. "The daily prospect of joy or disaster
Zoe Archer
#8. Again Mosca felt she was up in the rafters, watching the mice. Little mouse, witless with fear. Running the wrong way. And here she was, just watching. Becoming a part of it by doing nothing.
Frances Hardinge
#9. Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.
C.S. Lewis
#10. Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity - pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.
H.G.Wells
#11. That there are a hundred with wit for one with understanding is a true proposition with which many witless Dummkopf consoles himself.The Dummkopf should also reflect that there also a hundred possessing neither wit nor understanding for every man possessing wit .
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#13. You like me witless?"
"Let's just say it evens the playing field a little.
Penny Reid
#14. Boredom, as her mother had always told them, was a state to be pitied, the province of the witless.
Kate Morton
#15. All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
H.L. Mencken
#16. So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.
Jorge Luis Borges
#17. What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.
Kenneth Turan
#18. Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
Billy Childish
#19. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.
Yann Martel
#20. it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a fashion. In
Dean Koontz
#21. He felt rather like someone lying in a bath after all the water has run out, witless, almost dead.
Malcolm Lowry
#22. The witless destroy what they don't understand.
Loretta Chase
#23. I was familiar with humans at this point only from afar, but even from there, I found them a pitiable species: scaleless, fangless, clawless, nearly furless, wingless, venomless, witless.
I honestly didn't understand how they had thrived so.
Patrick Jennings
#24. OF COURSE, SPACE travel isn't only about being stuffed into a claustrophobia-inducing cell, scared witless, trussed up in a restraint harness, and raped through every orifice for years on end. Because, you know, if that was all there was to it, there'd be a queue outside every travel agent.
Charles Stross
#25. I think it's fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we're unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we're witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.
Scott Lynch
#26. The lines gradually become their own demiurges and, like some witless yet miraculous participant, I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know.
Muriel Barbery
#27. You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!
Roald Dahl
#28. Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Carroll O'Connor
#29. Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.
Marshall McLuhan
#30. Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
Thomas Huxley
#31. I'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.
Marilyn Hacker
#32. In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.
Catherine Jinks
#33. Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#34. Sport is the big giveaway. Wherever sport plays a big part in people's lives you can be sure they're bored witless and just waiting to break up the furniture.
J.G. Ballard
#35. Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the law of nature.
Wallace Stegner
#37. Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
Michael Leunig
#38. I'd never seen the King of Cats fight before. He was suddenly everywhere, made of nothing but fangs and claws and fury, snarling like a chainsaw trying to sing opera. Our witless assassin never stood a chance.
Seanan McGuire
#39. April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.
Franz Kafka
#40. It seemed to him that he could hardly hear the sound of his own shrill voice: it was blown away from him by the willow-wind and drowned in a clamor of leaves, as soon as the words left his mouth. He felt desperate: lost and witless.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#41. The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless but with time you see things clear and stark
Elvis Costello
#42. Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.
Alison Fell
#43. I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.
El Greco
#44. There is nothing in the world so dangerous, or so overwhelming as stupidity; perhaps there is no more of it now than there has been at any time, but I do not think the witless of past generations had so much power. The powers of darkness are the powers of misdirected knowledge.
Gwethalyn Graham
#45. There isn't anything good to say about Kick-Ass 2, the even more witless, mirthless follow-up to Kick-Ass.
Manohla Dargis
#46. The key to contentedness is not the absence of work; neither is it to cap each day with the witless abandon of hollow entertainment, but to fill your days with that which fills your life with meaning.
Andrew Williams
#47. It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands putting back the night like some witless Paraclete beleaguered with all limbo's clamor.
Cormac McCarthy
#48. But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.
Albert Camus
