No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.
Never give your heart to a blockhead.
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.
