"Simpleton" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... furiously assailed her, and taking away her sickle, cut off her hands, her ears, and her nose. The afflicted woman shouted but as she was dumb she could not make herself understood and only howled, and then the simpleton cut her up, saying: "Let them come and they will see what I do with the devils!" (p. 18, Novena de San Vicente). To believe that God permitted a similar infamy is a gross insult to God. True, the ...
— The Legacy of Ignorantism • T.H. Pardo de Tavera
... "I'm a first-class simpleton," she decided. "Dorothy was right; always right. I'm a rattle-brain; and they think I am drowned. That is more reasonable, and more charitable, than to think I ...
— Dorothy Dale's Camping Days • Margaret Penrose
... macedoine of orientalities just discussed. It is not, of course, Perrault, and it is not the best Madame D'Aulnoy. But you are never "put out" by it; the hero, if rather a hero of Scott in the uniform propriety of his conduct, or of Virgil in his success, is not like Waverley, partly a simpleton, nor like Aeneas, wholly a cad. One likes the Princess Zibeline both before she had a heart and afterwards; it can be very agreeable to know a nice girl in both states. Perhaps it was not quite cricket of the ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... is not done, You have not learnt it half; You'll grow a downright simpleton, And make the ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole
... father would give me sixpence; but I know he wont, for he never goes to church, and cares nothing about the heathen, and as for mother, she would call me a simpleton if I was to ask her. I am determined I wont go to school next Sunday if I can't take something, it looks so mean; I will say I am ...
— Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters - Volume 3 • Various
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