
“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
Catch Phrases
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“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
Quote from Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1987) by Pierre Cabanne
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1981 - 1989
During a lecture on leadership quoted in [Field Marshal KM Kariappa Memorial Lectures, 1995-2000, http://books.google.com/books?id=Eux31FCNj8MC&pg=PA21, 2001, Lancer Publishers, 978-81-7062-119-5, 21–]
“One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.”
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/,
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 6
“I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.”
Source: The Demigod Diaries
“If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.”