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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very
next step to being dull.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: The Drummer (act IV, sc. 6)
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: The Drummer (act IV, sc. 6)
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural
stupidity.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: The Drummer (act IV, sc. 6)
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With various readings stored his empty skull,
Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Rosciad (l. 591)
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of
being dull.
Author: William Congreve
Source: Old Bachelor (act II, 2)
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The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 107)
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 107)
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There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and
stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 107)
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The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid.
[Lat., La faute en est aux dieux, qui la firent si bete.]
Author: Jean B.L. de Gresset
Source: Mechant (II, 7)
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken
him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an
excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson, of R.B. Sheridan
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The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James
II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told
him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"--"Is it possible?"
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. IX)
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I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster
than you think.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. IX)
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 612)
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us
out?"
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 612)
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Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.
[Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Maid of Orleans (act III, sc. 6)
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A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but
they have heads like a soapboiler's.
[Ger., Schad'um die Leut'! Sind sonst wackre Bruder
Aber das denkt, wie ein Seifensieder.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Wallenstein's Lager (XI, 347)
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always
declares that it is his duty.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Caesar and Cleopatra
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Peter was dull; he was at first
Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull!
Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed--
Still with his dulness was he cursed--
Dull--beyond all conception--dull.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: Peter Bell the Third (pt. VII, XI)
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It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to
open it and remove all doubt.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: Peter Bell the Third (pt. VII, XI)
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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: Peter Bell the Third (pt. VII, XI)
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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.
Author: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde)
Source: An Ideal Husband (act II)
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has
a longer shelf life.
Author: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde)
Source: An Ideal Husband (act II)
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