“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”

— George Eliot , book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots." by George Eliot?

George Eliot 300

English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

Related quotes

“4864. There are no Coxcombs so troublesome, as those that have some Wit.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1741) : There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“There is a favourite in every family; and, generally speaking, that favourite is the most troublesome member in it.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

The Monthly Magazine

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

“No one in my family disbelieved in religion, and no one disbelieved in evolution, either.”

Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) Philosopher

"A hundred years of thinking about God" (1998)

“Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

Source: The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories

“Fame doesn't change anyone, it just finds idiots; if you are a anonymous idiot, only your family know it; but if you are famous, all people will know that you are idiot.”

Patricia Conde (1979) Spanish actress

La fama no cambia a nadie, lo único que hace es descubrir a los idiotas; si eres un idiota anónimo, sólo lo saben en tu casa y poco más, pero cuando eres famoso, lo sabrán en todo el mundo que lo eres.
blog oficial Patricia Conde

“One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Was written in a slightly different way by Leo Longanesi in Italian, above form has been attributed to Kafka without evidence.
Misattributed
Source: One Idiot Is One Idiot. Two Idiots Are Two Idiots. Ten Thousand Idiots Are a Political Party, Quote Investigator, 2021-10-08 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/10/08/idiots/,

“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

“To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.”

Larry Niven (1938) American writer

Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 133

“I felt I didn't belong to either family.”

Stella Vine (1969) English artist

"Debt, Diana and homesickness" http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/theatre-in-newcastle/2004/06/08/debt-diana-and-homesickness-61634-14312773/ The Journal, (2004-06-08)
On changing her name to Stella Vine.

“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

George Eliot 300

Related quotes

Related topics