“The story is a simple one of the machinations of a rich society girl and her various romantic escapades on the eve of her wedding to a dullard.”

“In the modern state of heightened wariness, staring like a dullard sounds no more demeaning than walking in your socks through airport security.”

“You will probably have noticed that Martin is scarcely a shrinking violet, nor a slack-jawed dullard.”

“He is, however, quite impatient with the clods and dullards who do not find the tradition hopelessly retrograde.”

“It is the force by which all wrongful things are repelled from us, the sharp prod which spurs the dullards onward.”

“History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.”