“Stupidity is always a capital crime.”
Larry Niven (1938) American writer
The Fourth Profession (p. 183)
Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974)
"A mulher que Amou Demais: romance - Pg. 13, by Nelson Rodrigues, Published br Companhia das Letras, 2003 ISBN 853590414X, 9788535904147.
“Stupidity is always a capital crime.”
Larry Niven (1938) American writer
The Fourth Profession (p. 183)
Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974)
“Stupid people always ignored good advice”
Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019) American writer
Source: All I Need Is You
“I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
“Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.”
Orson Scott Card book Stone Tables
Stone Tables (1997)
“I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy.”
Bill Mauldin (1921–2003) American editorial cartoonist
The Brass Ring (1971)
Context: If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U. S. Army still has to learn that. The British understand it. Patton understood it. I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes.
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
Said to voice coach Peter Settelen in 1992, as quoted in [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6619607/t/tapes-reveal-more-princess-diana/ "Tapes reveal more from Princess Diana: NBC News exclusive: Inside the life of the late icon", NBC News (30 November 2004)
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
George Bernard Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra
Act III http://books.google.com/books?id=3wAOAQAAMAAJ <br class="br">Source: 1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
“Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist
Sketches and Travels in London; Mr. Brown's Letters to His Nephew: "On Love, Marriage, Men and Women" (1856).