"Idiot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Sandy, "wrap her up, git in the skiff, an' I'll be with yer as soon as I tie this chuckle-headed idiot ...
— The Fifth String, The Conspirators • John Philip Sousa
... "Take this idiot we've got now," he declared. "He expects me to be a sort of wet-nurse to the Government of India and do all their dirty work for them. They know local conditions, and they have ample powers if they would only use them, but ...
— The Moon Endureth--Tales and Fancies • John Buchan
... idiot ass Hungry for the fragrant fodder, Placed between two bales of grass, Lo, I ...
— A Little Book of Western Verse • Eugene Field
... much as the rest of the crew on board the galleon in which he sailed. All were so absorbed by their own suffering and misery that none paid any attention to the idiot boy in their midst. He worked at such work as there was to do: assisted to haul on the ropes, to throw the dead overboard, and to do what could be done for the sick and wounded. Like all on board he was reduced almost to a skeleton, and was scarce ...
— By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) • G.A. Henty
... Pities the orphan's, idiot's want of sense; And rich in supernumerary pelf, Adopts posterity unlike himself. To one great individual wit's confined! Such eunuchs never propagate their kind. Thus nature's prodigies bestow the gifts Of fortune, their descendants are no Swifts. When did prime statesman, for a sceptre ...
— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift
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