Nonsense Quotes

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense. (Vladimir Nabokov)
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. View quote
Roald Dahl
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want-an adorable pancreas? View quote
Jean Kerr
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. View quote
Robert Frost
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. View quote
Joseph Addison
I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system. View quote
Edie Sedgwick
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. View quote
Dr. Seuss
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. View quote
Northrop Frye
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. (Carl Sagan)
It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change. View quote
Angela Merkel
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. View quote
Charles Dickens
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. View quote
C. S. Lewis
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu. View quote
Georgette Heyer
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.) View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. View quote
Karel Čapek
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. View quote
Gelett Burgess
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding. View quote
Jason Statham
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. (Alfred North Whitehead)
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch. View quote
Horace Walpole
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action. View quote
Bertrand Russell