“The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett”
“Some idiotic things are well worth doing.”
“I told you that day: a pair of idiots. I thought she was leading you around by the nose--or some other organ.”
“As long as there are things and idiots, idiots will break things.”
“Zakalwe, in all human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”
“But then they were males, and therefore idiots about some things.”