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

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Cleverness Quotes, Funny Quotes, Understanding Quotes

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

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...

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education....

Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education....

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it...

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that...

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that...

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it