Nonsense Quotes

Pure love produces pure nonsense.
Jonathan Klinger

To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men.
Willy Wonka

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
Frederick Saunders

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.
Michel Montaigne

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.

No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.
Michael Eyquen

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Sir Max Beerbohm

Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.

But now everything will be different. It is nonsense to believe that life will not allow it, that the past will not allow it. I must struggle to live a better life, a far better life.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Anthony Hecht

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
F. L. Lucas







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