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Village Idiot Quotes

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.
- Joan Van Ark

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming
the village idiot.
I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the
happy idiot
able to get food easily
...and easy sympathy,
a planned confusion of not too much love or effort.
some would claim that I have succeeded.
- Charles Bukowski

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
- Stanley Kubrick

What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?
- Tanya Huff

I'd be at work where poeple respected my opinions, said Nick. And then, I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot.
- Liane Moriarty

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access.
- Peter Nelson

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.
- Gore Vidal

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