Ricky Gervais Quotes

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

You've gotta be slightly stupid.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?’

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

Again, (America is) a stupid country with stupid people who don't pay attention.

At least when you're young you're also stupid.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.