Short Witted

Jim George, a rather eccentric and "short-witted fellow," of ❋ D. Augustus Dickert (N/A)

Now just such short-witted shepherds are we, the people of these free ❋ Various (N/A)

_Borné_, literally limited, but used in French as a synonyme of short-witted, is the term that best characterizes the actions of all other animals, as compared with the graceless but amazingly versatile and well-planned pranks of our nearest relatives. ❋ Various (N/A)

You must find us plain, plodding Americans horribly short-witted sometimes. ❋ Ruth Sawyer (1925)

'A captious, long-tongued, short-witted sluggard, 'said the soldier of fortune. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

Dimitri, but Demitri, and in his private mind he thought her short-witted, narrow-minded, and ungracious. ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)

Holy Virgin, was brought up before Saint Thomas of Canterbury who suspended him from his charge, judging him to be short-witted and irresponsible. ❋ Henry Adams (1878)

But my free language disturbed the blind partisans of absolute power in the Church and State, and the Abbé Frayssinous, short-witted and weak though honest, obeyed with inquietude rather than reluctance the influences whose extreme violence he dreaded without condemning their exercise. ❋ John William Cole (1830)

There are many that are wise to worldly ends and purposes, as our Saviour tells us; wise to get riches, and to ascend to honours; but this is not the wisdom which we are to labour after; this is but a short-witted prudence, to serve a present turn without any prospect to the future, without regard to the next world, and the eternity which we are to live in; this is to be wise for a moment, and fools for ever. ❋ 1630-1694 (1820)

“I vow there’s two short-witted blades trying to make me into mincemeat and near succeeding. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"I vow there's two short-witted blades trying to make me into mincemeat and near succeeding. ❋ Unknown (1918)