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Mankind are the key to the universe; and I am sick of a world of turkey-cocks. To speak frankly is to be proscribed; to be kind to the unfortunate is to lose standing; to think deeply brings the reputation of a fool. No one understands me. They do not understand me, the imbeciles! Coglioni!" cried he fiercely, grinding the Corsican cry in his teeth and rising to walk about.

"I know these Nihilists, who imagine I am their chief, Trokoff that is my latest transformation!... I learned this evening that these imbeciles, believing they had got hold of Fantômas, were summoned here to-night to pass judgment on the bandit.... I accompanied them as Trokoff, who had called them together.

She was pushed aside and a red-faced woman, with thin lips and scowl, took her place. "'OO do you want to see?" she demanded. "Francis Morley. Does he live here?" "Francis Morley." My answer was sharp enough this time. I began to think I had invaded a colony of imbeciles or owls; their conversation seemed limited to "oos."

"There are only two pleasures for me in the world society and reading," she writes. "What society does one find? Imbeciles, who utter only commonplaces, who know nothing, feel nothing, think nothing; a few people of talent, full of themselves, jealous, envious, wicked, whom one must hate or scorn."

If one wishes to praise at all, it is a delicate and at the same time a noble self-control, to praise only where one DOES NOT agree otherwise in fact one would praise oneself, which is contrary to good taste: a self-control, to be sure, which offers excellent opportunity and provocation to constant MISUNDERSTANDING. To be able to allow oneself this veritable luxury of taste and morality, one must not live among intellectual imbeciles, but rather among men whose misunderstandings and mistakes amuse by their refinement or one will have to pay dearly for it!

By a series of assertions, hard to deny, the hero arrives at a terrible conclusion amounting to this: Art, affection, are in vain; we know not what we say, nor whom we love. Jouffroy came out of the theatre, snorting and ruffled. "But they are imbeciles, all!"

Maybe it'll rid the place of its evil influence, and so rid us of the attentions of the police. I tell you, Billy and Dy are perfect fools, and the folks are all mad. And I'm the greatest idiot ever escaped a home for imbeciles. There! That's how I feel. It's it's scandalous." Bill laughed good-naturedly. "Say, cheer up, Kate," he cried. "You surely don't need to worry any. It can't hurt you.

"There is a sort of cant," said Sir Richmond in a fierce parenthesis, "that the supplies of oil are inexhaustible that you can muddle about with oil anyhow.... Optimism of knaves and imbeciles.... They don't want to be pulled up by any sane considerations...." For some moments he kept silence as if in unspeakable commination.

Balzac dragged him off; and, with noses in the air and absorbed gaze, the two men promenaded along the Rue Saint-Honore and a number of other streets, knocking up against the people they met and provoking a good deal of profane language from these latter, who regarded them as a couple of imbeciles.

"I have induced you to take a charming promenade; here is a delicious breakfast; and yonder are five hundred persons, as you may see through the loopholes, taking us for heroes or madmen two classes of imbeciles greatly resembling each other." "But the secret!" said d'Artagnan. "The secret is," said Athos, "that I saw Milady last night."