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Jim: What idiot authorised that?
Bernard: You did, minister. Yes, Minister s2e6: The Quality of Life, BBC 1981
Do you think I am a complete idiot? Yes, Prime Minister s1e5: A Real Partnership, Jim to Sir Humphrey, with Bernard, BBC 1986
You think you’re dealing with a fucking idiot? Dog Day Afternoon 1975 starring Al Pacino & John Cazale & Charles Durning & James Broderick & Lance Henriksen & Chris Sarandon & Penelope Allen & Carole Kane et al, director Sidney Lumet, Sonny
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Marcus Tullius Cicero
We will find many useful idiots to further our cause. Vladimir Lenin
Chicolini here may talk like an idiot and look like an idot but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot. Duck Soup 1933 starring Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx & Chico Marx & Zeppo Marx & Margaret Dumont & Raquel Torres & Louis Calhern & Edmund Breese & Leonid Kinskey et al, director Leo McCarey, Rufus at treason trial
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. John Lennon
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher ... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. Douglas Adams
To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. Stanley Kubrick
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Samuel Goldwyn
I’ve had great success being a total idiot. Jerry Lewis
See the happy moron,
He doesn’t give a damn,
I wish I were a moron,
My God! Perhaps I am! Author unknown, cited Eugenics Review July 1929
You’re not a fake. You’re a genuine idiot. North by Northwest 1959 starring Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint & James Mason & Jessie Royce Landis & Leo G Carroll & Josephone Hutchinson & Philip Ober & Martin Landau & Adam Willims & Edwart Platt et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, woman at art auction
Even if he is an idiot he is still my brother. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s2e4: Invasive Procedures, Quark
One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party. Franz Kafka