17 Metaphors for nonsense

He seemed to think that his good-natured nonsense would always be a passport to favor and be accepted in the stead of real service, and in my association with him I was frequently reminded of the youth who announced in a newspaper advertisement that he was a poor but pious young man, who desired board in a family where there were small children, and where his Christian example would be considered a sufficient compensation.

They talk of fevers that infect the brains; 20 But nonsense is the new disease that reigns.

Nonsense and faith (strange as the conjunction may seem) are the two supreme symbolic assertions of the truth that to draw out the soul of things with a syllogism is as impossible as to draw out Leviathan with a hook.

As I happen to like both sense and nonsense, and the latter better than what generally passes for the former, I shall disclaim, even at Paris, the profondeur, for which they admire us; and I shall nonsense to admire Madame de Boufflers, though her nonsense is not the result of nonsense, but of sense, and consequently not the genuine nonsense that I honour.

The well-meaning person who, by merely studying the logical side of things, has decided that 'faith is nonsense,' does not know how truly he speaks; later it may come back to him in the form that nonsense is faith.

Our claim that nonsense is a new literature (we might almost say a new sense) would be quite indefensible if nonsense were nothing more than a mere aesthetic fancy.

Hideously frequent is this nonsense now become with mein streets of townsin deep nooks of the country: the invincible assurance that, if I but turn the head, and glance thereat a certain fixed spotI shall surely seeI must seea man.

I went to one of the Windows which opened to the Area below, where all the several Voices lost their Distinction, and rose up in a confused Humming; which created in me a Reflection that could not come into the Mind of any but of one a little too studious; for I said to my self, with a kind of Pun in Thought, What Nonsense is all the Hurry of this World to those who are above it?

Nonsense!" was the retort.

"Nonsense," was the rejoinder.

" R. "Ay, for a roof of subtlest logic falls When nonsense is foundation for the walls.

Nonsense shall be very good sense; you shall find that, sir, that you shall.

Nonsense, avaunt!banished be slander!

" "Nonsense!" was the response; "why do you say that?" "It may be nonsense, but it is true, nevertheless.

"Nonsense," he said; "it's the Chiff-chaff.

" "Nonsense," Lillian said, brusquely, "the man is just an ordinary common lady-killer of the type that infests these hotels, and ought to be horsewhipped at sight.

nonsense!" was the reply.

17 Metaphors for  nonsense