“It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.”
“I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”
“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”
“Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.”
“Annis had never been a people person, unless ‘people person’ was defined as a person who ate people.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”