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Quotes About Nincompoop

Right? said Lymond. You pathetic, maladroit nincompoop, you're never right.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
A person without regrets is a nincompoop.
~ Mia Farrow
Part of what Brahms and others could never quite get over was that Bruckner the composer of epic symphonies behaved, much of the time, like a nincompoop.
~ Jan Swafford
I created this character that I still have of a guy who is a little bit of a nincompoop - I'm poking fun at street hustlers. I didn't quite make as much money as one would gambling, but it was a lot safer.
~ Harry Anderson
Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?
~ Molly Ivins
I am Aethon, a simple shepherd from Arkadia, and the tale I have to tell is so ludicrous, so incredible, that you'll never believe a word of it—and yet, it's true. For I, the one they called birdbrain and nincompoop—yes, I, dull-witted muttonheaded lamebrained Aethon—once traveled all the way to the edge of the earth and beyond…
~ Anthony Doerr
The man is a nincompoop and a fool. Even worse, he took me for a fool as well.
~ John Flanagan
It was either Kenya or staying with my nincompoop grandchildren. Ha! Leopards I'd sooner." Melrose waited for her to complete the sentence, but she was done with it.
~ Martha Grimes
Don't make the Divine a nincompoop's idea, of being a man-like entity. What you see here is merely a wandering whirlwind of Infinity.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
Astronomy is as soil'd at the hands of the Pelhamites as ev'ry other Business in this Kingdom,— and we ever at the mercy of Place-jobbery, as much as any Nincompoop at Court.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Witherspoon is a gangster, a cheat, and a God damn liar, but he is of very little actual importance; merely a boodling nincompoop.
~ David Gerrold
A person without regrets is a nincompoop.
~ Mia Farrow