Blockhead Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. — Jean Baudrillard
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is… — Ambrose Bierce
I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises… — Giacomo Casanova
He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead… — Prince William
We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands… — H.G. Wells
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead. — Friedrich Schiller
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to… — Alexander Pope
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead… — Oscar Wilde
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. — Charles James
I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit… — Diablo Cody
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time — Karl Kraus
How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or… — John Dryden
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. — Benjamin Franklin
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. — William Hazlitt
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. — Samuel Johnson
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. — Alexander Pope
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would… — Abraham Lincoln

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