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Dunces Quotes

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

Daniel Tosh
Modern, Caps, Dunces

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

John Kennedy Toole
Dunces, Fortuna
John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.82, LSU Press

A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

Rajneesh
Fire, Dunces, Used

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

Jonathan Swift
Satire, Dunces
Jonathan Swift, John Mitford (1854). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift: With a Life”, p.168

There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

George Santayana
Stupidity, Mature, Dunces
George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Alexander Pope
Sarcastic, Dunces, Wit
'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 90

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

William Cowper
Home, Dunces, Has Beens
'The Progress of Error' (1782) l. 415

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Isaac D'Israeli
Men, Dunces, Consolation
"Essay on the Literary Character" by Isaac D'Israeli, Preface p. xxix, and Vol. I, p. 187, 1795.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

Charles Churchill
Fool, Dunces, Folly
Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.64

Not all celebrities are dunces.

Carroll O'Connor
Dunces

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

C. S. Lewis
Care, Dunces, Interest
C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

Ivan Turgenev
Facts, Nihilist, Dunces
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (1998). “Fathers and Sons”, p.54, Oxford University Press, USA

Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.

Charles Churchill
Brother, Forgiving, Dunces
Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.124

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

Ambrose Bierce
Understanding, Suffering, Dunces
Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.462, ReadHowYouWant.com

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