Stupidity Mark Twain Quotes & Sayings

Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do. — Paolo Giordano

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. — Mark Twain

I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money. — S.J Perelman

Speech is the faculty by which men conceal their thoughts. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

Best putdown of a copy editor ever award goes to Raymond Chandler, who, in a 1947 letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, wrote: By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive. — Raymond Chandler

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. — Mark Twain

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie. — Mark Twain

When one of England's finest writers, G. K. Chesterton, spoke of "the furious love of God," he was referencing the enormous vitality and strength of the God of Jesus seeking union with us. — Brennan Manning

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana. — Frederick Lenz

I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the any novel is a local thing always. — Zadie Smith

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless. — Thomas Watson

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars
all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose
there is no such war in the history of the race. — Mark Twain

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. — Laurence J. Peter

I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl. — Julianna Margulies

Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred. — Samuel Johnson