William Saroyan Quotes

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

Innocence is ignorance.

I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

I've never met an evil person ever.

Of course I am not evil.

I just wanted to be angelic and pure and nice and kind.

I think sometimes naivety can be a gift.

We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

Marvelous are the innocent.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.

You've gotta be slightly stupid.