Witless Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the…
— Roger Ebert
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Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
— Ian McHarg
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There isn’t anything good to say about Kick-Ass 2, the even more witless, mirthless follow-up to Kick-Ass.
— Manohla Dargis
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All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to…
— H. L. Mencken
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I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the…
— Scott Lynch
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Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a…
— John Aylmer
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What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something…
— Kenneth Turan
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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his…
— Mark Twain
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Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen…
— Billy Childish
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The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.
— Elvis Costello
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I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.
— El Greco
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Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
— Thomas Huxley
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Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
— Carroll O'Connor
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But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees…
— Albert Camus
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i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.
— Marilyn Hacker
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What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.…
— Frederick Buechner
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I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it…
— Pascal Mercier
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You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!
— Roald Dahl
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And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Who Wrote These Witless Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 30 Witless Quotes, led by these top contributors: