“Simpletons! Yes, yes! I'm a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We'll build a town and we'll name it Simple Town, because by then all the smart bastards that caused all this, they'll be dead! Simpletons! Let's go! This ought to show 'em! Anybody here not a simpleton? Get the bastard, if there is!”

“The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.”

“One more minute of this, and she’d be a certifiable simpleton.”

“The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.”

“He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.”

“In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.”

“And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.”