"Dunce" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... existence; its novelty shall not avail (with me at least) to save its ugliness from annihilation. If I thought otherwise, I admit that a round dozen of vultures would be none too many for the liver of a dunce who could not see that ugliness was ...
— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata
... German as plain as sunshine, for that must correct itself. You know I am homo unius linguae: in English—illiterate, a dunce, a ninny.' ...
— By-ways in Book-land - Short Essays on Literary Subjects • William Davenport Adams
... go back and study. No going out to play for you this morning. Jane Mason, you're the biggest dunce in school." ...
— A Little Girl in Old Salem • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... limited circle of ideas would permit; but, unlike my brother, who was at this time at school, and whose rapid progress in every branch of instruction astonished and delighted his preceptors, I took no pleasure in books, whose use, indeed, I could scarcely comprehend, and bade fair to be as arrant a dunce as ever brought the blush of shame into the cheeks of anxious ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... of the crew needs especial remark, Though he looked an incredible dunce: He had just one idea—but, that one being "Snark," The good Bellman ...
— The Hunting of the Snark - an Agony, in Eight Fits • Lewis Carroll
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