Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric."
Dunces quotes
Dunces
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
George Santayana
Philosopher, Poet
"There is no dunce like a mature dunce."
Charles Churchill
Poet, Playwright
"Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about."
Charles Churchill
Poet, Playwright
"Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce."
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