Stupid Quotes - Page 27

• The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clever, Husband, Men

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• He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. "All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me." "Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her. "You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise. "I don't want to dance with you.

  Joseph Heller

  Sleep, Night, Singing

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

  Melissa Marr

  Logic, Foolish, Dangerous

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• And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive.

  Nick Hornby

  Real, Hard Times, Alive

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• Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

  Denis Leary

  Long, Intellectual, Fierce

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.59, Penguin

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• You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You can’t walk around letting people think you’re stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, it’s fun to call people names they have to look up to realize they’ve been insulted. (Mark) Yeah, that’s a twofer there. You get away with it and then they’re twice as mad when they realize how bad you really insulted them. Especially if they mistake it for a compliment when you say it and thank you for it. (Bubba)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Mistake, Boys

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• I'm just another stupid human.

  Markus Zusak

  Humans

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm not stupid, stupid. Leave this whole thing in my extremely capable and well-manicured hands. I'll call you later with an update. Bye!

  P. C. Cast

  Hands, Bye, Updates

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Burned: A House of Night Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Clever, Writing

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 2, 1932.

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• For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Firsts, Remember, Weak

  "Darkly Dreaming Dexter". Book by Jeff Lindsay, Chapter 25, 2004.

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• Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Common Sense, Way, Presses

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.250, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Stop it. This is serious! (Selena) Serious? Please. I’m standing out here on my twenty-ninth birthday, barefoot and in jeans my mother would burn, holding a stupid book to my chest in an effort to summon a Greek love-slave from the great beyond. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Book, Jeans

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• I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bitterly it's too late yet while I feel better I still feel ephemeral and unreal and unable to straighten my thoughts or even really grieve, in fact I feel too stupid to be really bitter, in short I don't know what I'm doing and I'm being told what to do.

  Jack Kerouac

  Morning, Hate, Struggle

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Desolation Angels”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• Anya jumped in front of the man, acting as his shield. “Now, Sabin. He didn’t mean any harm. He’s borderline stupid. You know that.

  Gena Showalter

  Mean, Men, Acting

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Whisper”, p.95, HQN Books

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• Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place. She like to talk about Sartre sometimes, just as insurance.

  Craig Ferguson

  Mother, Believe, Soul

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.27, Chronicle Books

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• Stupid, fragile mortals.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Fragile, Mortals

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• And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Thinking, Knowing, Asking

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.74, Penguin

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• And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!” “No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. “Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

  Georgette Heyer

  Wish, Despair, Endymion

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• In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

  Coco Chanel

  Intelligent, Dumb, Sensitive

  "Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, p. 95, 1971.

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• No you sick, stupid creep, I love you. I shouldn't. I shouldn't. You're sick inside, Caine, sick! But I love you. - Diana

  Michael Grant

  Love You, Sick, Diana

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• Once I saw Desjardins’ house, I hated him even more. It was a huge mansion on the other side of the Tuileries, on the rue des Pyramids. “Pyramids Road?” Sadie said. “Obvious, much?” “Maybe he couldn’t find a place on Stupid Evil Magician Street,” I suggested.

  Rick Riordan

  Pyramids, Evil, House

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil." "Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be shoking if the evil magicians were sexist. For one thing, that would mean they were stupid, and having stupid enemies would be a terrible blow to my manly pride.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mean, Pride, Blow

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• All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

  Margaret Atwood

  Looks, Mouths, Hard

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was so furious I was actually dizzy with it. There were so many bitchy, sarcastic observations to make, I was having a sarcasm stroke. "My God! You people! You're - you're so stupid you're making my eyeballs throb. They're throbbing, dammit!

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, People

  MaryJanice Davidson (2010). “Undead and Unfinished: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.114, Penguin

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• This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Epidemics, Stupidity, Cures

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