Top 25 Imbeciles Quotes of 32 - Page 2

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

Missing, Half, Imbeciles

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

Bored, Imbeciles, Contemplating

Remy de Gourmont (1928). “Remy de Gourmont: Selections from All His Works”

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Atheist, Imbeciles, Imagine

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.71, Random House

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

Georges Courteline

Children, Parent, Imbeciles

As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

George Bernard Shaw

Practice, Asking, Imbeciles