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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.

At the age of 61, my hip went. I was skiing in Chile with my son, and there was a turn, and I kept falling. I thought, 'What an idiot; what's going on here?'

Quotes by Michael Hintze

The 'Bolton News' is the best place for online comments. They say I'm an absolute idiot and a communist anarchist. I was never an anarchist; I was a communist!

Quotes by Maxine Peake

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

Quotes by Martin Van Creveld

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before...

Quotes by Martin Van Creveld

I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.

Quotes by Marlon Wayans

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

Quotes by Margaret Cavendish

Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

Quotes by Lucy Lawless

I'm not ashamed to look like a total idiot.

Quotes by Lucy Punch

I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

Quotes by Lindsay Pearce

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

Quotes by Leo Durocher

Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.

Quotes by Lemmy

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

Quotes by Lee Child

I had big teeth, and I was goofy. I probably used to mess with people too much. People were always trying to be cool, and I was just being goofy and an idiot. So whenever I would get picked on...

Quotes by Lamorne Morris

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

Quotes by L. Sprague de Camp

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

Quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

Quotes by Kevin Bacon

You don't want to miss out on something and feel like an idiot.

Quotes by Kevin Connolly

When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.

Quotes by Karl Pilkington

There was a girl in fifth grade that I had a crush on that joined drama club, so I joined the drama club because I'm not an idiot, and I was gonna hang with her.

Quotes by Jordan Fisher

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.