I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes,… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Natural rights, nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, elevated nonsense, nonsense going on stilts.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
True to their history, the English are very domineering and have manipulated it in different ways. I wouldn't say that there was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
