(252 quotes found)
“Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect”
Frederick Saunders
“Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
George Eliot
“You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.”
Henry Brooks Adams
“Always remember, money isn't everything -- but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.”
Earl Wilson
“Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.”
Max Beerbohm
“The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.”
Benjamin Franklin
“nonsense environment.”
Janis Joplin
“Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.”
Ann Coulter
“Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.”
Phyllis McGinley
“People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity, that there is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence and crudity”
Hugo Demartini
