STUPID in Classic Quotes

1  Trudolyubov struck up some stupid song.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IV

2  They were all stupid, and as like one another as so many sheep.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: I

3  Before me was standing a person with a stupid smile, the "madam" herself, who had seen me before.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: V

4  They laughed cynically at my face, at my clumsy figure; and yet what stupid faces they had themselves.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: III

5  My servant is an old country-woman, ill-natured from stupidity, and, moreover, there is always a nasty smell about her.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: I

6  I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: V

7  And what was worst of all, I thought it actually stupid looking, and I would have been quite satisfied if I could have looked intelligent.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: I

8  Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VII

9  Of course, this very stupid thing, this caprice of ours, may be in reality, gentlemen, more advantageous for us than anything else on earth, especially in certain cases.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VIII

10  Even at sixteen I wondered at them morosely; even then I was struck by the pettiness of their thoughts, the stupidity of their pursuits, their games, their conversations.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: III

11  from there altogether, she began, to break the silence in some way, but, poor girl, that was just what she ought not to have spoken about at such a stupid moment to a man so stupid as I was.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IX

12  For through his innate stupidity the latter looks upon his revenge as justice pure and simple; while in consequence of his acute consciousness the mouse does not believe in the justice of it.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: III

13  I know I shall be told that this is incredible--but it is incredible to be as spiteful and stupid as I was; it may be added that it was strange I should not love her, or at any rate, appreciate her love.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: X

14  I got the better of him on that occasion, but though Zverkov was stupid he was lively and impudent, and so laughed it off, and in such a way that my victory was not really complete; the laugh was on his side.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: III

15  The palace of crystal may be an idle dream, it may be that it is inconsistent with the laws of nature and that I have invented it only through my own stupidity, through the old-fashioned irrational habits of my generation.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: X

16  One of them was Simonov, who had in no way been distinguished at school, was of a quiet and equable disposition; but I discovered in him a certain independence of character and even honesty I don't even suppose that he was particularly stupid.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: II

17  But I repeat for the hundredth time, there is one case, one only, when man may consciously, purposely, desire what is injurious to himself, what is stupid, very stupid--simply in order to have the right to desire for himself even what is very stupid and not to be bound by an obligation to desire only what is sensible.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VIII