"Idiot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Right, you unplumbable old idiot! Do you think you can come into this cave and hide anything from me under that transparent face of yours? The minute you came in and hemmed and hawed, and said as you had nothing to do you guessed you'd have a go with the firesticks—I knew. What ...
— IT and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris
... the prospects of Christianity had not already decided the question for him, so far from receiving credit for political sagacity, as he ever has done, he would deserve rather to be considered an absolute idiot! ...
— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers
... imagine my feelings. I went hot all over. "Shar," of course, not "Shah." How ever could I have been such an idiot as to have thought it was "Shah"? S-h-a-h obviously spelt shash, not shar. How nearly I had exposed my appalling ignorance to my fellows! "Vote for the—"; I blushed again, hardly able to think of it. And oh! how thankful I was now that everybody else had been too busy to read my poster. ...
— If I May • A. A. Milne
... What are clothes for, idiot of a woman! To put on, to wear. I shall habit myself as a gentleman. Faith—it is ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison
... a poor, senseless idiot like Johnny Gibson. He comes here for broken victuals constantly, you know, and your mamma ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield
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