#clever

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts. ↗

— Kelly Brook

#clever #people #think #you

I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#cheney #clever #cool #dick cheney #either

Clever tyrants are never punished. ↗

— Voltaire

#never #punished #tyrants

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#clever #dormant #erupt #ingenious #later

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. ↗

— William Whitelaw

#clever #less #more #never #slightly

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#audience #clever #make #obvious #subtleties

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#because #changes #clever #complex #deceptively

A clever man commits no minor blunders. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#clever #clever man #commits #man #minor

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#admired #am #clever #clever people #i