Nonsense Quotes · Page 18

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

— Moliere

I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.

— Zach Braff

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

— John Dryden

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

— David Mamet

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

— Horace

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem…

— F. L. Lucas

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion,…

— Tavis Smiley

We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east…

— Midge Decter

“If you ask for my opinion in what regards Tim Ferris, Eckhart Tolle, Rhonda Byrne, Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling, you…

— Robin Sacredfire

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole,…

— Eric Hoffer

The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't…

— Nigel Cole

When a man ends up in the White House who boasts about not having a clue and who says that specialist knowledge…

— Martin Schulz

“The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must…

— Ray Bradbury

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People…

— Charles Krauthammer

Bes had indeed put on his ugly outfit. He climbed onto the roof of the limbo and stood there, legs planted, arms…

— Rick Riordan

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be…

— H. L. Mencken

I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside…

— Anonymous

Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when…

— Rami M. Shapiro

I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive…

— Marina Warner

Sourav's greatest asset is his ability to communicate. He is a naturally very confident person. He encourages his team, is a great…

— Ravi Shastri

Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair…

— Aldous Huxley

So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering…

— Charles Dickens

“And then there was one nonsense phrase he said near constant. Sounded like ‘Cat hoodoo fat hag hen!”

— David Bain

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of…

— Luke Ford

The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.

— Ian Astbury

Tea has always been a big thing in my life. And I'm not talking about Liptons with lemon or iced tea, or…

— Paul Rudd

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

— Benjamin Franklin

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

— Tom Stoppard

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

— George Bernard Shaw

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people…

— Gene Roddenberry

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

— Nick Bantock

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense

— Morton Blackwell

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est…

— Horace

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness…

— Katha Pollitt

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

— Nick Harkaway

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is…

— Anthony Hopkins

Nonsense and common sense are the twins that nourish imagination and creativity.

— Tasneem Hameed

I seek and I find dead reactions. People kill time being cliche. Play a card but it'll never be a fraction. Feeble…

— Luke Garner