Imbeciles Quotes

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.

The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

The mother of the imbecile is always pregnant.

To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.

Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.