Idiots

Examples

• What right have such men to represent Christianity--as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly--as if-- Mary checked herself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Idiots are especially apt at this kind of imitation; it affects outward acts but not the meaning of their performance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• May the Devil carry away these idiots! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He is like the fine old Crichley portraits before the idiots came in. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Here there is nothing but idiots and cowards. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I know more about Nature than half your scientific idiots with their books. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Then idiots talk,' said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, 'of Energy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Typist: Pansy