Fatuous Quotes
21 quotes by 21 authors
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
— Samuel Butler
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
— Northrop Frye
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Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot…
— Bobby Jones
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.
— Nigel Farage
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Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by…
— Chris Hedges
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I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.
— Peter Medawar
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Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to…
— Chuck Israels
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Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just…
— Richard Paul Evans
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Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in…
— Wilfred Owen
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No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more…
— William Borah
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Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless…
— Max Lerner
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One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages,…
— Alastair Campbell
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What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt,…
— Mervyn Peake
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There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved…
— Henry Miller
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I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the…
— E. M. Forster
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I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States…
— Stendhal
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Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
— David Mitchell
Who Wrote These Fatuous Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 21 Fatuous Quotes as follows: