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Quotes About Dullard

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.
~ Philip José Farmer
His mouth spewed out a gigantic waterfall of stupid comments on a regular basis, but he'd always said them on purpose. Being an accidental dullard was something new. Did sudden celebrity turn one into an idiot? It would certainly explain a lot...
~ Jeff Strand
A dullard only feels exalted upon being conferred with a coveted award that s/he never deserved, but surprisingly even then that shameless person expresses via own word as how s/he feels humbled or honored to the watchful audience of this world.
~ Anuj Somany
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
~ beerbohm max ii
the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
~ Max Beerbohm
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
~ Max Beerbohm
Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage — leave sagacity to the autumn!
~ Terri Guillemets
Strange enough how creatures of the human-kind shut their eyes to plainest facts; and by the mere inertia of Oblivion and Stupidity, live at ease in the midst of Wonders and Terrors. But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Supposedly if you could think of nothing good to say about a dullard you would say that he was a good Christian. Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.
~ Cormac McCarthy
DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life... The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude... According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
~ Ambrose Bierce
But the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
~ Max Beerbohm