“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”

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

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”

“American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.”

“Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.”

“How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!”

“MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk.HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal.MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!”