Quote by Agatha Christie

“There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He had a high opinion of his own insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a clever…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...”

— John Geddes

“It has been my experience that those meant for greatness are normally the least aware of their own genius.”

— Lizzy Ford

“He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with…

— Stanisław Lem

“DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must be pluckt from Obscurity…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Sometimes to be calm and composed is the greatest weapon against fools and idiots. Agreeing with their stupidity renders them helpless and powerless.”

— Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“His gibberish sounds intellectual enough to make some people feel like agreeing with him makes them look smart.”

— Aaron J. Ethridge

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke