I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Self Deprecating Quotes

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things...

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things...

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to...

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always...

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else...

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else...

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably...

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably...

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can...

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can...

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak...

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak...

There is no sin except stupidity.

There is no sin except stupidity.

All art is quite useless.

All art is quite useless.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms