Blockheads Quotes
34 quotes by 28 authors
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What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.
— Robert Southey
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Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than…
— Samuel Johnson
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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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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
— Horace Walpole
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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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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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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
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Never give your heart to a blockhead.
— Charles M. Schulz
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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
— George Saville
Who Wrote These Blockheads Quotes
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