"Moron" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bring any system or order out of the chaos that prevails in the discussion of the insane, the defective, the moron, and the feeble-minded. The world has so long believed that man is a specially created animal and that he does wrong from free choice, that much more time and investigation are necessary before sane and scientific theories can ...
— Crime: Its Cause and Treatment • Clarence Darrow
... the cool semigloom of the compartment. "I—usually manage to have enough dates. Until some moron like Neal-Hayne puts me ...
— DP • Arthur Dekker Savage
... had taken a cigarette from his pack and started to light it, stopped suddenly and looked at Jackson as though the U.B.I. man were a two-headed embryo. "Yes, Mr. Jackson, that is right," he said slowly, as though he were speaking to a low-grade moron. "And the capital of California is Sacramento. Are there any further matters of public knowledge you would like to ask me about? Would you like to know when the War of 1812 started or who ...
— A World by the Tale • Gordon Randall Garrett
... blood mount to his temples. Tommy giggled like a moron. And Ulana drew away, ever so slightly, it was true, but still it was a definite withdrawal. Damn this ...
— The Copper-Clad World • Harl Vincent
... as when we think we know where we are and all about ourselves. What is the personality of a lunatic but a personality a little less, or very much less, coherent than ours? What is the personality of a moron? Of an idiot? Of a feeble- minded child? Of a horse? A dog? A mosquito? A bullfrog? A woodtick? A garden snail? And, Leo, what is your own personality when you sleep and dream? When you are seasick? When you ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London
... LE MORON; undoubtedly a corruption of MARRON, a runaway negro. Wild; untamed. It applies to men as well as animals, as, for instance, to the tribes which have had no intercourse ...
— Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon • George Gibbs |
