Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!

Pride is a fool's fortress

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

There are idiots. Look around.

Girl, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself!

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

I once dated a guy so dumb he could not count to 21 unless he was naked

Stop squandering yourself, child. Wait for love.

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

Feed by measure, and defy the physician.

Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.