Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I. Q. 's if possible.
The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
The mother of the imbecile is always pregnant.
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.
Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle.
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.
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.
Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
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?
It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.
A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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.
