“One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.”
“He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.”
“One does silly things when one is twelve.”
“What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.”
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”
“For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying--what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what one felt.”