Blockhead Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
— Jean Baudrillard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
— Friedrich Schiller
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
— Charles James
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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
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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
— Karl Kraus
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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
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
— Benjamin Franklin
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
— William Hazlitt
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
— Samuel Johnson
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
— Alexander Pope
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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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
Who Wrote These Blockhead Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Blockhead Quotes as follows: