Nonsense!' said Gregory, who was very rational when anyone…

“Really," said Gregory superciliously, "the examples you choose–" "I beg your pardon," said Syme grimly, "I thought we had abolished all conventions.”

— G.K. Chesterton

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do…

— Brandon Sanderson

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

— Orson Scott Card

“Nonsense!" said the Emperor—but in a kindly, sympathetic tone. "Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow. For…

— L. Frank Baum

I can’t have it either. It affects the babies in utero.” “Nonsense,” he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder. Life would…

— Richelle Mead

“What is all this talk of elephants and seals?' asked Frog. 'It's nonsense', said the father, 'and yet it's not the child's fault. Our…

— Russell Hoban

“Nonsense,” said the witcher. “And what’s more, it doesn’t rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading…

— G.K. Chesterton

I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated,…

— Maggie Nelson

The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is…

— Margaret M. Lock

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come…

— Laura Hillenbrand

When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what to do.…

— Margaret Wertheim

:)So Micayla didn't quite understand the meaning of the word paradox, so like most things I struggle to understand or make sense of I…

— Micayla Ludick Basson

The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights…

— Paul Craig Roberts