But let me only say that anyone who tells you that they were scoundrels, these great men, is a perfect idiot.

You're making a fool of yourself and you're making me feel a perfect idiot.

Or maybe he was trying to prove he was a perfect idiot after all; I don't know.

"Because we are not perfect idiots," said Weston gruffly.

They would never have thought of seeing each other again if the delight of fooling such a perfect idiot had not egged them on!

Only a perfect idiot's face could be read like that.

Stop all this nonsense and take me at once to Colonel Chance, do you hear, you perfect idiots?

Lung thought he looked the perfect idiot.

Only a perfect idiot could have been as exhilarated as I was.