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  • Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

    Beautiful   Feet   Sick  
    Gustave Flaubert (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)”, p.195, Delphi Classics
  • None but blockheads copy each other.

  • An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

    Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar
  • A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

    William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.137
  • I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.

    Writing   Eight   Years  
  • Never give your heart to a blockhead.

  • The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

    Ornaments   Oratory   May  
  • A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.

  • I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

  • Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

  • Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

    Poor Richard's Almanack, Feb. 1734
  • The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

    Fool   Annoying   Wells  
  • When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

    Sympathy   Wise   Brother  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.459
  • A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.

    William Hazlitt (2005). “The Fight and Other Writings”, p.464, Penguin UK
  • Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

    Title of song (1977)
  • The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

    "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.
  • A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

    William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.137
  • A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

  • The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.

    Real   Home   Men  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.23, 谷月社
  • The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

  • We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

    Hurt   War   Achievement  
    H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”
  • No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

  • What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

    Wise   Children   Reading  
    Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.87
  • There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

    Party   Animal   Ignorant  
    Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.227
  • When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

    Men   Genius   World  
  • For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.

  • The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

    'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 612
  • Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

    Book   Reading   Editors  
    Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.201, Oxford University Press
  • Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

    Teacher   Mean   Cocky  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.161, Vintage
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