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Quotes About Stupid

Ah, well, people can be stupid abou' their pets," said Hagrid wisely.
~ J. K. Rowling
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
~ Vladimir Lenin
mere tabloid journalists, obliged to choose between the word of a Tory MP and that of a common prostitue, have been far too stupid to see that you can put your mortgage on the latter being true.
~ William Donaldson
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
~ William Hazlitt
Love, is always insufficient, always a lie. Love, you are the clean shit of my soul. Stupid love, silly love.
~ William Kennedy
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.
~ William M. Kelly
But racial pride is not only stupid but wrong, even if provoked by racial hatred. All nationalism or racialism is evil, and Jewish nationalism is no exception.
~ David Edmonds
Threatening others with physical harm allows the possibility of cutting through all this. It makes possible relations of a far more simple and schematic kind ("cross this line and I will shoot you," "one more word out of any of you and you're going to jail"). This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid.
~ David Graeber
When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.
~ Joseph Heller
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
~ Maxim Gorky
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
~ John Dewey
I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
~ Ted Lindsay
If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.
~ Ronald Reagan
I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.
~ Dave Barry
We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.
~ Nigel Farage
I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
~ Roland Joffe
I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???
~ Louise Rennison
It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.
~ Dan Quisenberry
I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.
~ P. D. James
But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
~ Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Monkeys can't talk, stupid!
~ Jeff Kinney, Rodrick Rules
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
~ Jane Austen
Love may be blind, but lust is just damn stupid.
~ Lois Greiman, Unscrewed