NOTORIOUS

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A widely and unfavorably known person. It describes someone famous for a negative reason, such as an immoral act, bad behavior, or a criminal reputation. “We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity.”
Long before my time and back in the black and white days, a fine film Director made a film with an infamous phrase.

As paraphrased I from the film, at the end of the day, thanks be to God, we the people are protected by the enormity of his stupidity.

You are sore because you've fallen for a chick you tamed and you don't like it. It makes you sick all over, doesn't it? People laugh at you, the invincible man, in love with someone who isn't worth even wasting time or words on.

The line is one of the most famously savage put-downs in cinematic history. It comes from Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1946 film noir, Notoriou 

The Iconic Quote

In the film, the villainous Nazi sympathizer has made a mistake. Terrified of what his ruthless colleagues will do if they find out about his blunder, he confesses his gullibility to his icy, manipulative mother. She delivers the brutal zinger: "We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity... for a time." It's a masterful stroke of hard-boiled dialogue, meaning that their secret is currently safe only because his mistake was so ridiculously massive that his fellow conspirators won't immediately believe he could be that foolish.
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