Blockhead Quotes

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. (William Hazlitt)
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. View quote
Alexander Pope
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
If a Creator God exists, would He or She or It... prefer a kind of sodden blockhead who worships while understanding nothing? Or would He prefer His votaries to admire the real universe in all its intracacy? View quote
Carl Sagan
To tell the truth, I often felt uneasy when I thought of the excessive brittleness and fragility of the moon. The moon is generally repaired in Hamburg, and very imperfectly. It is done by a lame cooper, an obvious blockhead who has no idea how to do it. He took waxed thread and olive-oil-hence that pungent smell over all the earth which compels people to hold their noses. And this makes the moon so fragile that no men can live on it, but only noses. Therefore we cannot see our noses, because they are on the moon. (Nikolai Gogol)
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. View quote
Charles James Fox
If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts. View quote
Diablo Cody
How easie is it to call Rogue and Villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a Man appear a Fool, a Blockhead, or a Knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! View quote
John Dryden
But we, O blockhead, with dogged spite and armored love shall force those deaf dark powers to grow ears and hear us! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company. View quote
Oscar Wilde
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time. View quote
Karl Kraus
I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
[Coldplay is] a British pop group whose success derives from their ability to write melodramatic alt-rock songs about fake love. It does not matter that Coldplay is the shittiest fucking band I've ever heard in my entire fucking life, or that they sound like a mediocre photocopy of Travis (who sounds like a mediocre photocopy of Radiohead), or that their greatest fucking artistic achievement is a video where the blandly attractive frontman walks on a beach on a cloudy afternoon. None of that matters. What matters is that Coldplay manufactures fake love as frenetically as the Ford fucking Motor Company manufactures Mustangs. . . "For you I bleed myself dry," sang the blockhead vocalist, brilliantly informing us that stars in the sky are, in fact, yellow. (Chuck Klosterman)