"How clever you are, my dear! You..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
More by Oscar Wilde
“I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me”
“Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it”
“She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.”
More on Cleverness
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.”
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”
“A clever man commits no minor blunders.”
More on Deception
“And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.”
“Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.”
“He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose, he would perhaps have done better to powder his countenance also, for there was something in its very wrinkles, and in his cold restless eye, which seemed to tell of cunning that would announce itself in spite of him.”