Nonsense Quotes

Exported revolution is nonsense.

— Joseph Stalin

The market for nonsense is infinite.

— James Randi

“Nonsense. It's elves!”

— Natalie Babbitt

“My father is a fish.”

— Theodore Roethke

Well, India is a country of nonsense

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Uncommon sense is common nonsense.”

— G K Chesterton

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

— Bodhidharma

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

— Eric Butterworth

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

— Walter Lippmann

Criticism is nonsense. TV shows and newspapers just want to fill the space.

— Ronaldo

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

— C. L. R. James

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

— Mark Twain

“Never breathe a word of such destructive nonsense any more.”

— Anonymous

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Left me ta lower your standards?? Nonsense

— Anonymous

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God,…

— Ernest Hemingway

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books…

— Robert Graves

“Some people seem to overestimate the amount of nonsense I am willing to accept from them.”

— Steve Maraboli

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense.”

— Victor Hugo

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

— Norman Finkelstein

If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed…

— George MacDonald Fraser

“‎" You think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one…

— Anonymous

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and…

— Marcus Aurelius

The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

When I get married,' said Fred, tugging at the collar of his own robes. 'I won't be bothering with any of this…

— Anonymous

The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of…

— Gail Carriger

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a…

— Martin Gardner

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to…

— Bertrand Russell

I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women…

— Tina Modotti

I originally started it to help me with anxiety & insomnia. It’s already made my life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better & even with my…

— Sky Ferreira

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel…

— Russell Brand

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that…

— Carl Sagan

There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no…

— Roger Gale

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then…

— Scott Adams