Witless Quotes

30 quotes by 29 authors

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
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
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. — Ian McHarg
There isnâ€™t anything good to say aboutÂ Kick-Ass 2, the even more witless, mirthless follow-up toÂ Kick-Ass. — Manohla Dargis
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
I think itâ€™s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that weâ€™re unique geniuses, and the… — Scott Lynch
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
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
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
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
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
I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it. — El Greco
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. — Thomas Huxley
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. — Carroll O'Connor
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
i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in. — Marilyn Hacker
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
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
You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue! — Roald Dahl
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

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