Quotes About Dunces

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

My issue isn't with guns . . . my issue is with dunces who happen to have guns.

the vague feeling of ambitions in common, the awakening of a higher intelligence among the vulgar herd of dunces and dunderheads they had to contend with in class (27)

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

We are next informed that bookworms, a term which seems to be held applicable to whoever has the smallest tincture of book-knowledge, may not be good at bodily exercises, or have the habits of gentlemen. This is a very common line of remark with dunces of condition; but whatever the dunces may think, they have no monopoly of either gentlemanly habits or bodily activity.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

It's true I have a stay-at-home nature. I abhor physical exercise (except for making love, of course). I've always believed that sport should be left to the dunces.

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

When a true Genius appears in the World, you may know him by this Sign, that the Dunces are all in Confederacy against him.

The great majority of men are natural dunces and sluggards; in any system whatever these men will sink to the bottom; and to help them with state subsidies is "like pouring water into a leaking cask." Such people must be ruled in politics and directed in industry; with their consent if possible, without it if necessary.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift— "THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, MORAL AND DIVERTING