| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. |
| Alexander Pope | If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" |
| Alexander Pope | The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. |
| Alexander Pope | If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed-- Still with his dulness was he cursed-- Dull--beyond all conception--dull. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"--"Is it possible?" |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think. |
| William Congreve | I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. |
| Charles Churchill | With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. |
| George Bernard Shaw | When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. |
| Joseph Addison | We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. |
| Joseph Addison | Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes. |
| Joseph Addison | Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity. |
| John Dryden | The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. |
| John Dryden | Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. |
| John Dryden | There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe. |
| Samuel Johnson | He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. |
| Samuel Johnson | Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull, but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature. |
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