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Idiot Quotes

Quotes about foolishness, spoken plainly.

This page collects blunt, often self-mocking lines built around the word idiot, including a speaker avoiding predictions because it is a fast way to look foolish, and a line calling generalizing itself a foolish habit. The tone stays casual rather than mean-spirited.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright

People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what...

Quotes by Steve Marriott

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

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

Quotes by Stanley Kubrick

It's daunting doing something you haven't done before - you feel silly; you feel like a bit of an idiot.

Quotes by Stacey Dooley

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

Quotes by Sloane Crosley

Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry, scrub that - clearly a very thoughtful person with whom I might conceivably disagree on some marginal issues....

Quotes by Simon Hoggart

When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Robertson, you have a college degree. What are you doing?' Then they drove away saying, 'What an idiot!' Thirty-five years later, they're saying, 'The...

Quotes by Si Robertson

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Quotes by Sid Caesar

Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.

Quotes by Sherilyn Fenn

I live right next to a grocery store and I don't know if it's the bachelor in me, but I just go in and shop for what I need for the day. I'm an idiot because I don't shop for...

Quotes by Seann William Scott

I got fired from a movie that ended up being called 'Windows,' which Gordon Willis, the cinematographer, directed. I got fired because he refused to cast Meryl Streep, who at the time was at Yale. I told him I thought...

Quotes by Scott Rudin

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

Quotes by Scott Adams

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an...

Quotes by Samuel Horsley

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Quotes by Salvador Dali

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

Quotes by Sally Kellerman

Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about.

Quotes by Ruth Reichl

All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping...

Quotes by Russell Smith

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

Quotes by Ronnie Corbett

Let's face it. Nobody predicted Trump. He's a fairytale nightmare that none of us could possibly have imagined. Shame on those 63 million who - especially those Obama voters who crossed over and voted, shame on them for putting this...

Quotes by Ron Stallworth

A few entries poke fun at admiration going too far, noting how easily anyone can seem taken with someone. Pair this page with Feel quotes for more on candid reactions.