Dunces Quote by Charles Churchill

Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.

— Charles Churchill

When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

— John Kennedy Toole

Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

— Ambrose Bierce

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that…

— Clive James

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

— Jonathan Swift

“It is unclear if corporate governments are truly the dunces of human health or if they are just faking it in order to propagate…

— Steven Magee

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

— Ambrose Bierce

What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's…

— John Stuart Mill