Imbecile Quotes

56 quotes by 50 authors

""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me!… — Arthur Conan Doyle
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,… — Victor Hugo
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since. — George Bernard Shaw
I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off.… — Lennox Lewis
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. — Olive Schreiner
The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew… — Joseph Conrad
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are… — H. L. Mencken
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is… — Pablo Picasso
You mean to say that when an imbecile walks into a church, office, day care center, or school, stumbling about, almost zombie-like, with gun-filled hands… — Ted Nugent
A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed… — Alfred Binet
It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for… — Alfred Binet
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken. — Victoria Woodhull
You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without… — Jacques Anquetil
Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring. — Charles Davenport
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of… — Robert E. Sherwood
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to… — Aldous Huxley
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or… — Robert Anton Wilson
Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social… — Noam Chomsky
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process… — Charles Darwin

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