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Quotes About Imbeciles

Scruples were for imbeciles. His clear duty was to make himself happy.
~ Jose Conrad
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
~ Jeanne Moreau
fate is for imbeciles; all is possible to the resolved mind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philippa thinks of you, as she thinks of me, as a rather run-down institution for indigent imbeciles.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
It's an established theory in infant psychology that the human animal can validate his ego only through the eyes of others. Have you ever seen the expressions of imbeciles or schizophrenics? If the roadway is left blocked too long, one ultimately quite forgets there is one.
~ K?b? Abe
The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.
~ Rick Yancey
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Exista de cand lumea o categorie de oropsitori ai vietii, fanatici care interzic fericirea, osandesc placerea, detesta rasul si persecuta inteligenta. Ei obtin întotdeauna stima imbecililor si izbutesc recurent sa instaleze o forma sau alta de teroare.
~ Alexandru Paleologu
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
~ Alexandre Dumas
When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new 'niches for imbeciles' were opened up. You could survive and pass your unremarkable genes to the next generation by working as a water carrier or an assembly-line worker.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you... ... What is it? [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible. Yeah, agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. Why am I an imbecile?
~ Eoin Colfer
Bienaventurados los imbéciles, porque de ellos es el reino de la tierra.
~ Andrés Caicedo
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
~ Camillo di Cavour
A kid asked him what his painting was. "It's Venice at night, an accountant's soul, the blood of imbeciles. Smoker's lung. Tenure. The inside of a lock, the taste of iron. Despair. A city with the streetlights shot out, the heart of a school board director." Some teachers whisper he's having a breakdown. I think he's the sanest person I know(181)".
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
At first alienists describes this condition as "moral insanity" and those who exhibited the disorder as "moral imbeciles." They later adopted the term "psychopath".
~ Erik Larson
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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~ Ford Madox Ford
Diríase que el amor se ha prostituido, al pasar por el corazón de tantos imbéciles.
~ André Gide Diarios
And it is a great fact of history that the most mediocre and well-meaning imbeciles can strike down the mighty with surprising effectiveness when there is such a huge disparity of souls.
~ Anne Rice
We find ourselves in the last of the three generations history chooses to repeat every now and then. The first generation needs a god, and so they invent one. The second erects temples to that god and tries to imitate him. And the third uses the marble from those temples to build brothels in which to worship their own greed, lust, and dishonesty. And that is why gods and heroes are always, inevitably, succeeded by mediocrities, cowards, and imbeciles.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
De enorgullecerse y horrorizarse al mismo tiempo, sin complejos, de lo que somos y de lo que fuimos, en esta nación hecha de pueblos diversos, cuyos quinientos años de existencia y tres mil de memoria se atreven a negar, hoy, los oportunistas y los imbéciles.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Hay dos clases de fumadores, querida: la de los que fuman para crear un ambiente, una atmósfera para sí mismos y que se hartan tan pronto como lo consiguen; y la de los que fuman, sencillamente, porque están hartos del ambiente. Los primeros pertenecen a la clase de los estetas, a la clase de los que son ligeramente imbéciles, los Orminys; yo pertenezco a la segunda, que es la legítima, que es dogmática sin tapujos.
~ Salvador Dali
Aunque dicen que sólo los imbéciles son felices, confieso que me sentía feliz.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa