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
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
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't… — Jill Ciment Copy Share Image
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is… — Robert Bellarmine 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 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
...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
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
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
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
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
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
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
