Comedy Quote by David Foster Wallace

“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.”

— David Foster Wallace

It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well…

— Douglas Adams

If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would…

— Thomas Merton

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

— Jeffrey Combs

People like to use the word 'naivete' as a negative, but not for me.

— Brian Tyree Henry

I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good…

— Thomas Mallon

“We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of…

— Samuel R. Delany

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

— Jock Sturges

Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together…

— Frank Black

“[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.”

— Hal Clement

Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's a question…

— Christian Bale