S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Stupid people sometimes complain that there is no sex in Austen's novels. In fact, they are driven by the oceanic force of suppressed female desire, which dwarfs any opportunity for enactment. Actual sexual intercourse is the off-stage climax of the Austen novel. The possibility that defloration may be an anti-climax is to be found in the tingling ironies that cling to every word that Austen writes.”
“Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.”
“Stupid people. Their faces are gonna get stuck that way.”
Source: Count on Me
“Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents - doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He's already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem...”
“Stupid questions make more sense than stupid answers”
“Stupid quotes are only Twitters in disguise.”
“Stupid religion makes stupid beliefs, stupid leaders make stupid rules, stupid environment makes stupid health, stupid companions makes stupid behaviour, stupid movies makes stupid acts, stupid food makes stupid skin, stupid bed makes stupid sleep, stupid ideas makes stupid decisions, stupid clothes makes stupid appearance. Lets get rid of stupidity from our stupid short lives.”
“Stupid rock gods! Leo yelled through the helm, thats the third time ive had to replace that mast! You think they grow on trees?
Nico frowned. Masts are from trees.”
“Stupid Romanian bloodsucker. He was lucky I hadn't bestowed another exalted scar on his imperial body.”
Source: Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
“Stupid,' she said.
That was the only word for this sense of enormous loss where there had been so very little to lose.”
Source: Home Fire
“Stupid Sixteen year old kid falling from the sky! I'm late!”
“Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!”
“Stupid things have good outcomes all the time.”
“Stupid things like that which I never took into consideration – that I never thought about before like "Oh, maybe I'm hindering my singing by drinking all this amount before I go on stage. Maybe it's making me not project my voice properly."”
“Stupid. This was all so stupid. We had already broken up. I’d done all my crying. I’d vented to Emily and my mom – remapped my future into a life that didn’t include him. So why did I feel as raw and vulnerable as I had the moment he broke up with me?”
Source: She Who Rises
“Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.”
Source: Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel
“Stupid to the power of stupid.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series
“Stupid to think that our wine will never turn.”
Source: Twist
“Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity”
“Stupid werewolf ninja sperm.”
“Stupid. Why do people want to pretend
that death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t”
“Stupid women were lured into it and assured they would become young and beautiful if they let themselves be pummeled and pounded and smeared with sticky creams, and have their faces lifted and their stomachs flattened. They paid a lot of money to Madame Olympia, who would put a little bit of magic into the creams and ointments that she used so that at first they did look marvelous. But it was the kind of magic that wore off very quickly, leaving the women even uglier than before so that they would rush back to her and pay her more money and the whole thing would start again.”
Source: Which Witch?
“Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.”
Source: The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature
“Stupid word, that. Period. In America it means 'full stop,' like in punctuation. That's stupid as well. A period isn't a full stop. It's a new beginning. I don't mean all that creativity, life-giving force, earth-mother stuff, I mean it's a new beginning to the month, relief that you're not pregnant, when you don't have to have a child.”
“Stupid young girls who get caught alone in the forest fall prey to anything that crosses their paths, be the beast animal, human or shapeshifter.”
Source: Steal the Dragon
“Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
“Stupid, fragile mortals.”
“Stupid, shiny Volvo owner.”
“Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!”
Source: The Art of Bone
“Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you..." ... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible. "Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?”
“Stupida, facilona primavera! Ricopre tutto senza discernimento, confonde il senso con il nonsenso, eternamente buffona, finta tonta, di una leggerezza senza limiti.”
Source: Le botteghe color cannella. Tutti i racconti, i saggi e i disegni
“Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.”
“Stupidity always comes around the persons you love the most.”
“Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“Stupidity arise for unwillingness to study.”
“Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.”
“Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.”
“Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”
“Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.”
“Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.”
“Stupidity could also provoke an unprecedented level of nonsense.”
“Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.”
Source: Stupidity
“Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.”
“Stupidity goes hand in hand with racism.”
Source: In Limbo
“Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.”
Source: The Plague
“stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves”
Source: The Plague
“Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.”
Source: Carrion Comfort