Quotes of: Dunces Keyword

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Alexander Pope

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

William Cowper

Not all celebrities are dunces.

Carroll O'Connor

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

Isaac D'Israeli

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

Tamara Feldman

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Emma Goldman

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

A Confederacy of Dunces

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

A Confederacy of Dunces

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

A Confederacy of Dunces

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

Lisa Marie Presley

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

A Confederacy of Dunces

I will not wear a tulle-tailed dunce cap for anyone or for any reason.

Princess Paisley

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

A Confederacy of Dunces

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Lord Byron

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

A Confederacy of Dunces

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

Poppy Z. Brite

I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns.

A Confederacy of Dunces

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." [ ]

Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

A Confederacy of Dunces

We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.

Walter Kirn