NONSENSE QUOTES III

quotations about nonsense

Are fifteen generations of puppet masters to end with a harlot of a dirty dog who uses his art to tell nonsense? Don't speak! I know this is the new world and the atomic age, but I know that what has taken three hundred years to make does not lose its value in a few weeks.

ROBERTSON DAVIES

Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

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Mackle grackle! Mackle grackle korpal fie! Korpal fie!

WALTER WYKES

The Father Clock

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His nonsense suits your nonsense.

ROBERTSON DAVIES

The Cornish Trilogy

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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

Going Back to School

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There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

G. K. CHESTERTON

Child Psychology and Nonsense

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Nothing is capable to being well set to music that is not nonsense.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, March 21, 1711

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Any bit of nonsense can be computerized--astrology, biorhythms, the I Ching--but that doesn't make the nonsense any more valid.

JOHN ALLEN PAULOS

Innumeracy


It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense.

PHILIP K. DICK

Valis

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Nonsense and beauty have close connections -- closer connections than Art will allow.

E. M. FORSTER

The Longest Journey

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

GELETT BURGESS

The Romance of the Commonplace

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The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

MASON COOLEY

City Aphorisms

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A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.

TOM STOPPARD

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.

LAURENCE GONZALES

Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things


All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

SAMUEL BUTLER

The Note-books of Samuel Butler


How does the world of nonsense, of the Quangle-Wangle and the Snark, relate to this complex philosophical and literary maze? Part of the answer involves the fact that nonsense is, in a unique and special way, a world of words come to life, a world whose insistently self-defined reality is almost completely linguistic. In nonsense, words often exercise a creative power similar to that granted to language in some primitive cultures.

LISA EDE

"An Introduction to the Nonsense Literature of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll", Explorations in the Field of Nonsense


One man's nonsense is another man's sense.

PETER CAMERON

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You


Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Lothair

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A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

ROALD DAHL

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

NORTON JUSTER

The Phantom Tollbooth


If nonsense is a dream, it must be a dream stripped of all its symbolism -- not a wish-dream, nor a day-dream or a nightmare.

WIM TIGGES

"An Anatomy of Nonsense", Explorations in the Field of Nonsense