Imbecility Quotes

35 quotes by 28 authors

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is,… — Vincent Van Gogh
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. — Denis Diderot
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. — Havelock Ellis
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts â€”… — Charlotte Bronte
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the… — Charles Bukowski
Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality. — William Saroyan
Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts… — Edgar Allan Poe
It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the… — Tristan Tzara
The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. — Tristan Tzara
That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and… — Henry Louis Mencken
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages isImbecility: imbecility… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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