But I had no need to fear; there is a combination of stupidity and vanity which nothing can move.
No harm, messieurs," I made haste to protest, ruing my stupidity with that dagger.
I was so vexed with the fellow's stupidity that I had a great mind to punish him by not disclosing a syllable more.
The setting this right still vexes me almost as keenly as my stupidity vexed me some time since, when I saw my first horse and cart from an upper window, and took it for a dog drawing a wheelbarrow!
Ah, my dear ladies and gentlemen, there is such a fine strong foundation of stupidity at the bottom of our common humanity--if we only knew it!
In crowds it isstupidity and not mother-wit that is accumulated.
But the Knowledge, good Sense and Penetration, which your Libertines display at some Times, are inconsistent with the Ignorance, Folly and Stupidity they shew at others.
This, to the best of my Knowledge, is all the Meaning I had in it; and I think it must have been Stupidity to have had any other.
Exchange, of the exorbitant customs charges, of the stupidity of the Government that so shackled the development of the country.
He would lecture the doctor, throwing in his face his stupidity in scorning such happiness,--he said this with all his heart, his voice trembling with envy.
But this was a mere piece of stage-play to amuse and to beguile the stupidity and the bigotry of the Irish Parliament of those days.
But he failed sadly in his duty, whether from stupidity or irresolution, and probably he would not have cared to outlive his degradation.
At once all the horror and all the stupidity of unnatural death were revealed to me .
Arousing him, we made known our errand; and the accusations and tears of the wife, together with the maudlin stupidity of the man, were pitiful to witness.
The awkward manner of handling the guns, the stupidity displayed in learning the instructions and duties of the post, and the various mistakes constantly occurring were laughable to witness.
She would affect astonishment, and by way of curing one sort of stupidity she corroborated it by displaying another.
The stupidity of having entered your service before I knew you.
She might have rejoined that the stupidity was on our side, but by so doing she would have betrayed herself.
Whilst my stupidity and awkwardness injured me in her opinion, persons whom she frequently saw and most loved, were far from being disposed to aid me in gaining what I had lost.
My stupidity was such, that I had no doubt of her being delighted with what I had done.
I felt this myself, and was humiliated at the discovery, envying the talents of my friend Venture; though I should rather have been obliged to my stupidity for keeping me out of the reach of danger.
My stupidity did not, however, prevent me from finding in the baron a more jovial and satisfied appearance than ordinary.
I am inclined to think my stupidity did but increase her resolution, and make her determined to get the better of it.
Witness of this scene, I could not but wonder at my stupidity in never having suspected the connection; but Claude Anet was so discreet, that a more penetrating observer might have been deceived.
For my part my stupidity was such, that, far from foreseeing my misfortune, I did not suspect even the cause of it after I had felt its effect.
The story is worth recounting, as it exhibits a concurrence of ignorance and stupidity I should scarcely credit, did it relate to any but myself.
You speak of your pretendedstupidity for the purpose of making me feel my own.
I carried my stupidity so far as to speak to her of the discovery I had made.
I have since that time frequently thought of the subject of them; and such is still my stupidity that I have hitherto been unable to discover what in the passages, quoted from my letter, she could find offensive, or even displeasing.
For mere density and well-intentioned incompetence, as in the case of Louis XVI, he had some pity; but for stupidity arising from wanton obstinacy and arrogance he had nothing but wrath and scorn.
Stupidity he warned against as one of the chief implements of the devil.
There is no mistake about this; the instances of German stupidity are so numerous that they make something like a complete history of German international relations.
He would no doubt have been the first to admit, for he had an alert and sceptical mind, that it is only our stupidity which finds anything comic in such an appeal.
Could stupidity, the stupidity of the wise men of Gotham, be more fantastic or more monstrous?
He hated shut minds and shut doors of thought and feared nothing except that some possibly valuable inquiry might be hindered or stopped by stupidity and prejudice.
The stupidity of the multitude is sure protection against his insidious loveliness and essential sadness.
Yet genius takes its revenge on a dull world, especially if it is prosperous genius, too well established to be starved out by the stupidity of an inartistic people.
Yes, I mean the brother, and I have warned and taunted the count this week past, but it is impossible to awake him from his stupidity and thoughtlessness.
You forget that you owe every thing to me, and that without me you were a miserable mercenary, whosestupidity and tediousness were the ridicule of every one, and you had never gained the entrance to a genteel house.
At page 183, for example, the reader will find a most penetrating analysis of the dense stupidity which so often accompanies man's love of bloodshed.
I now saw, and not before, what stupidity it is to begin a work before we reckon its costs, or judge rightly our own abilities to go through with its performance.
With a muttered exclamation at hisstupidity he stepped hastily from the veranda and walked towards it.
No ignorance or stupidity daunted him; and it used to surprise me that a man of such extensive information and extraordinary talents, should take the trouble of imparting knowledge to people who were so immeasurably his inferiors.
In view of the monumental stupidity of her diplomacy Germany has found it necessary to invent explanations.
There is one type of fool, exclusively American, whose stupidity arises from love and tenderness.
He lives in a country where stupidity is, so to speak, crowned and throned, and where honour is a means of exchange; and he draws his simple, straight conclusions.
In those days I asked in amazement why this thing was not done, and talked the usual nonsense about the obduracy and stupidityof the world.
Slavery still fights a guerilla war in factory and farm, cruelty and violence peep from every slum, barbaric habits, rude barbaric ways of thinking, grossness and stupidity are still all about us.
