Quotes about idiot
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“We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot."
"Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Stupidity

“Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.

'The first one. I really resent being called the second.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“Yeah, I’m thinking it’s a reunion or, since it is our classmates, a collection of idiots. Let’s call it a meese. Like geese, only with morons. (Caleb)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Thinking

“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Variant: He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

“Then who shot me? (Zarek)
One of them idiot Squires. Hell if I know which one. They all kind of look alike when they’re not yours. (Jess)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Hell

“It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Variant: Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.
Source: The Hunger Games

Hate

“You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena)
That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

“And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

God, Girl, Question, Kiss

“There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Fish

“I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Life, Happiness, Thinking

“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.”

Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author

Source: Off the Wall at Callahan's

Thinking

“My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And.

But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender in Exile

Source: Ender in Exile

World, Food, Sleep, Clothes

“who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Girl, Thinking

“My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Love

“Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

Sense

“Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.”

Iain Banks Culture series

Source: Culture series, Consider Phlebas (1987), Chapter 2 “The Hand of God 137” (p. 27).

Stupidity, Thinking

“Jump into an open grave? What kind of idiot are you?" Butters replied. "I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team. There's snow and ice and slippery mud down there. That's like asking for an ironically broken neck.”

Jim Butcher book Ghost Story

Source: Ghost Story

“Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be?

Seriously, what else could go wrong?”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“I get the feeling," Alec said, and smiled, "she hasn't forgiven me for betraying you, as she sees it."
"Good girl," said Jace with appreciation.
"I didn't betray you, idiot."
"It's the thought that counts.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Smile, Feeling, Girl

“And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Game, Tree

“I have never voted in my life… I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) French writer

Life

“A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.”

Janet Evanovich Three to Get Deadly

Source: Three to Get Deadly

Sex

“So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid."
"Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot."
"Thanks!”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

God, Stupidity, Thinking, Night

“I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears;”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

Love

“Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.”

Barry Hughart book Bridge of Birds

Source: Bridge of Birds

People

“Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?"

"No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.”

Cressida Cowell book How to Train Your Dragon

Source: How to Train Your Dragon

Reading

“Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.”

Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher

1990s
Source: [Can Man Live Without God, 1994, 9780849939433, 12]

Truth, Beauty, Art, Communication

“A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: Drop Dead Gorgeous

“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.”

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

Women, Men

“Forgive me…. I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.”

Lloyd Alexander book Westmark

Source: Westmark

Forgiveness

“What are you doing?"
"Looking for my fangs."
"We don't grow fangs you idiot!”

Darren Shan book Cirque du Freak

Source: A Living Nightmare

“Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

God, Way

“I’m not an idiot! I’m just twelve. I’m a twelve-year-old girl and neither of those facts are my fault.”

Ally Carter book All Fall Down

Source: All Fall Down

Girl

“Is that why you didn't call me? Because I'm an idiot?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Funny

“I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble.”

Janet Evanovich Twelve Sharp

Source: Twelve Sharp

“Who is he?"
"An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.”

S.M. Stirling book Conquistador

Conquistador (2003)

Books

“We're being led by an idiot with a crayon.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Variant: We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.
Source: The Arctic Incident

“For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.”

Gordon Korman One False Note

Variant: For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
Source: One False Note

“Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine's 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees."
"What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?" inqired Jessamine.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Fear, Game

“I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill,” Hall observed. “The trick is to get back down alive.”

Jon Krakauer book Into Thin Air

Source: Into Thin Air

“Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide.
Welcome to Canada, idiot.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Home, Time, Parting

“The whole "weak in the knees" thing, which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions, was real.
-Suite Scarlett”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: Suite Scarlett

Age

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Error

“Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Just Like Heaven

“Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Duke and I

Men

“What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

1790s, Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)

Men

“Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

“Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.”

Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970) Japanese manga artist

“You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor

“I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991), Chapter 18 (p. 549)

“I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Kiss of Death

“But Iget afraid. It's just that fear makes me sort of… angry and resentful, and I bite back at it. It's hard to describe."

It isn't hard to describe, you idiot," Aud said. "It's called courage.”

Jonathan Stroud book Heroes of the Valley

Source: Heroes of the Valley

Fear, Courage

“Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It’s like an Idiot’s Guide to the Afterlife.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

People, Books, Dead

“There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks (1952)

World

“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variants: I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots. I fear the day when technology overlaps our humanity. It will be then that the world will have permanent ensuing generations of idiots. 1995 film Powder includes a similar quotation attributed to Einstein: It’s become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. Although it is a popular quote on the internet, there is no substantial evidence that Einstein actually said that. It does not appear in "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein" from Princeton University Press nor in any reliable source. " Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/19/tech-surpass/" concluded that it probably emerged as a meme on the internet as late as 2012. Misattributed

World, Fear

“There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.”

Larry Niven (1938) American writer

“Did you run any of this by Curran?”
“I told him I was about to do something idiotic and dangerous, and he told me to go ahead and let him know if he could help in any way.”
“I don’t understand your relationship.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Binds

Way, Understanding, Help

“People don't get it. He didn't even have a fuckin' map; what kind of idiot? THAT was the point. There's no blank spots on the map anymore, anywhere on earth. If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.”

Jon Krakauer (1954) American outdoors writer and journalist

People

“It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Law

“If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Variant: If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

God

“I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off."
"Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery…”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

Love, Nature, Time

“Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means… for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something…
…
Asagai: It means… it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.”

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

Source: A Raisin in the Sun

Food

“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Art

“Teach you to try marrying me, you idiot!”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“Romantic Egoist
What's better, an idiot who never tries… or an idiot who at least takes a shot?”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2

“Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid-- it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Guy, Appearance, Rage

“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”

August Strindberg Miss Julie

Source: Miss Julie

Life, Mathematics, Bee, Madness

“You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot.
And you know what?
You're right.”

Sonya Sones book What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know

Source: What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know

Thinking

“You, your grandmother, the chairman----YOU'RE ALL ABUNCH OF FRIGGIN' IDIOTS!!!"

~Haruhi”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 16

“Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

Source: The Trouble with Kings

“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

Stupidity

“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

Fear

“She gave me the jabs and said I was covered for every worst-case scenario, including being bitten by a dirty chimp. I told her this is why we have over-population problems. Why are idiots who annoy dirty chimps being protected?”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

Problem

“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”

H.L. Mencken book Notes on Democracy

Part 2, chapter 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=Xw-DAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+demagogue+is+one+who+preaches+doctrines+he+knows+to+be+untrue+to+men+he+knows+to+be+idiots%22&pg=PA103#v=onepage 1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926) Context: The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and pretends to believe it himself.

Men