Famous Quotes & Sayings

George R. R. Martin

The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.

George R. R. Martin

It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

George R. R. Martin

He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There's no defense against stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Franklin P. Adams

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

Franz Grillparzer

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

Franz Grillparzer

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

Jeff Lindsay

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

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

Jeff Lindsay

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

Jeff Lindsay

Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.

Jeanette Winterson

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

Jessie J

I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

Jemima Kirke

I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.

Jen Kirkman

I realized that even I have weird intimacy issues with humans - like, I need my friendships to get deeper, I need to be locked in, I need to remember people's names. I know this sounds really stupid, but I just need to be more present in my life.

Jim Fowler

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

Jeremy London

If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Georges Courteline

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

George Sand

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder ...

George Sand

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

George Sand

Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.