I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted. — Tamara Feldman Copy Share Image
When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories. — John Hay Copy Share Image
As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“It is unclear if corporate governments are truly the dunces of human health or if they are just faking it in order… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty.… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game.… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ • On dunces: in the old days, if you were found out to be a dunce on any given subject you would have… — Patric Juillet Copy Share Image
At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces. — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
